The Diocese of Evansville is preparing for the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, which Pope Francis proclaimed on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception in 2014. The Holy Father will open the worldwide Jubilee of Mercy on Dec. 8 – the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception in 2015 – b...
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St. Joseph Parish in Vanderburgh County began a partnership with the people of St. James Parish in Plaine du Nord, Haiti, in 1988 when then-Pastor Father Francis Schroering and Gilbert Fehrenbacher, a parishioner and deacon of the church, visited the Haiti parish.  During the first 16 years of...
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St. Joseph, Vanderburgh County, parishioner Greg Head has chaired the parish’s mission team since 2007. He has been to Haiti seven times during the last 10 years. He organizes and facilitates team meetings that are held the third Thursday of each month. Head attributes the growing interest, w...
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Diocesan Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry Steve Dabrowski, left, and Cindy Shoulders, Director of Youth Ministry at Evansville’s Good Shepherd and St. Theresa Parishes, shot this selfie in front of part of the Diocese of Evansville group that attended the National Catholic Youth Con...
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General Interest “On Staying at Table: Being Faithful Amidst Life’s Difficulties,” 9:30-11:30 a.m., Dec. 12, Kordes Hall, Ferdinand; program explores how to support each other’s sanity and remain faithful amidst economic woes, political madness, dangerous social tensions, be...
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How should we treat the environment? Father Eugene Schmitt writes in the bulletin at St. Raphael Parish in Dubois and St. Peter Celestine Parish in Celestine, “We fulfill God’s commission with regard to creation when we care for the earth, with its biological laws, its variety of specie...
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St. Joseph Parish in Vanderburgh County has been “twinned” with St. James parish in Plaine du Nord, Haiti, for more than 25 years. Since 2003, Father Gene Schroeder, pastor of St. Joseph, has visited St. James 10 times. During the past 12 years, more than 200 people have gone to Haiti w...
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During a 2013 mission trip to Haiti with members of the outreach group from St. Joseph Parish in Vanderburgh County, Resurrection Parish member Jim Riordan spotted a boy near a local chicken farm. The youngster captured his attention.  Years earlier, Jameson Andre, 13, suffered an infection th...
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Bishop Charles C. Thompson, third from left, and Daughter of Charity Sister Theresa Sullivan, left, stand with several of the young adults from the Diocese of Evansville who attended the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis. Submitted photos courtesy of Daughter of Charity Sister Ther...
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