Photographer and Holy Rosary Parish Manager Joe Holtz grabbed this selfie at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico with Bishop-Emeritus Gerald A. Gettelfinger. The scouts and other adults in the photo are part of a group of 17 scouts and scouters who visited Philmont on two different treks from...
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  Wednesday classes in Loogootee “After many suggestions from our parents and much consultation including from our parish council, we have decided to return our religious education classes to Wednesdays,” writes Father Kenneth Walker, pastor at St. John the Evangelist Parish in Loo...
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  General Interest Free Movie Friday at Monastery Immaculate Conception, 1:30 p.m., July 31, Assembly Hall, Ferdinand; movie, “Facing the Giants,” is about a high school football team with six consecutive losing seasons whose coach finds that in order to succeed he must convince hi...
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  Father Jason Gries, pastor of St. John the Evangelist Parish in Daylight, grabbed this selfie when the Berendes family visited him earlier this summer in Washington, D.C. Father Gries is there studying canon law. They’re standing in front of a popular Washington eatery, Ollie’s T...
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  From July 13-16, Marian Educational Outreach hosted “Tech it Easy,” a summer day camp for diocesan students in grades 3-12 who benefit from assistive technology.   Assistive technology allows students of various learning needs to discover and create personalized ways of lear...
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              When I asked Father Simon Natha (associate pastor at St. Boniface Parish in Evansville, my home parish) to prepare dinner with me for a story in The Message, I expected to depart after about an hour with some knowledge of Ind...
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The combined youth group of St. Bernard Parish in Rockport and St. Martin I Parish in Chrisney hosted its third annual mission trip to benefit Spencer County.  The Mission Trip is called Catholic Mission Adventure.  Twenty-three teenagers, six college students and numerous adult volunteer...
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    "Ignite your torch! Conquer for Christ!"      This was the cry of nearly 300 youth gathered in the gym on the campus of St. Catharine College in Springfield, Ky. Since 2009, this campus has become the training ground for Catholic high schoolers as they go forth amo...
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  Work continues on the initial phase of the Cause for Canonization of Servant of God Bishop Simon Bruté, the first bishop of Indiana. He is buried in the crypt under St. Francis Xavier Basilica in Vincennes, which was the seat of our state’s first diocese.   Archbishop-Emeritu...
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