Parish picnic draws huge crowd!
Thousands of people visited St. Mary Parish in Ireland on Sept. 14 for its annual picnic. Nearly perfect weather combined with something for nearly everyone to make the event an enjoyable time for all who attended. Volunteers served dinners inside and outside, and there were plenty of other...Read full story »
Monday, September 15, 2014
St. Nicholas Parish celebrates
Just before he began the Eucharistic Prayer at 10 a.m. Mass Sept. 14, Father John Brosmer censed the people in the almost-full St. Nicholas Church. He pastors the Santa Claus, Ind., parish, and had just finished censing a new crucifix and newly elevated altar – the centerpieces of a sa...Read full story »
Monday, September 15, 2014
Sts. Mary and John parishioners celebrate merger
Parishioners from St. John the Apostle Church in downtown Evansville gathered Sept. 13 with parishioners from St. Mary Parish, also in downtown Evansville, for a Mass to celebrate the merger of their parishes, which took effect July 1. The celebration for the newly named Sts. Mary and John Parish b...Read full story »
Monday, September 15, 2014
Around the Diocese for September 12
25 years of service “Please join me in congratulating Mary-Gen Blittschau on her twenty-fifth anniversary as a judge within our Diocesan Tribunal,” writes Father Kenneth Walker. “She has been a loyal and faithful worker in upholding the laws of the Church. It has been an ho...Read full story »
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Bulletin Board for Sept. 12
General Interest Mexican Kermes (Mexican Independence Day), 1 p.m., Sept. 14, Nativity, Evansville; fun and prizes for Mexican Bingo, kid’s games, Mexican food; everyone welcome. Dolle Lecture at Saint Meinrad, 7 p.m., Sept. 16, St. Bede Theater, St. Meinrad; Denis McNamara will give t...Read full story »
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Diocese pays tribute to Donna Gish
Donna Gish, a long-time employee of the Diocese of Evansville Office of Catechesis, was honored recently with a retirement luncheon at the Catholic Center in Evansville. During her 17 years of service, Donna was both the assistant director and the acting director of the Office of Cate...Read full story »
Monday, September 08, 2014
Good friends, good food
The Diocese of Evansville’s Office of Hispanic Ministry held a picnic for the Latino community at Bosse Field during the Evansville Otters’ last home stand of 2014. Otters owner Bill Bussing worked with the OHM to set up a picnic in the outfield pavilion before the game, a...Read full story »
Monday, September 08, 2014
Precious Blood Parish in Jasper
In 1954: Pius XII was Pope. Most Rev. Henry J. Grimmelsman was bishop – the first bishop – of Evansville. “Ike” was in the White House. Television was black and white – and only six years old. And … Bishop Grimmelsman es...Read full story »
Monday, September 08, 2014
Installation at St. Peter, Montgomery
Bishop Charles C. Thompson visits with Father Jim Koressel before Mass on Sept. 6 at the new St. Peter Parish in Montgomery. Bishop Thompson installed Father Koressel as pastor of St. Peter, which came to life July 1 as a result of the merger of All Saints Parish in Cannelburg with the exist...Read full story »
Monday, September 08, 2014
Work at St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas Parish in Santa Claus will celebrate it first Mass in a redesigned, remodeled Sanctuary on Sept. 14. As part of the redesign, parish volunteers built a cross by hand, then attached the corpus. The wooden crucifix is now suspended over the altar. A time capsule was als...Read full story »
Sunday, September 07, 2014
