NCEA award award given to Holy Rosary pastor, diocesan vicar general
As reported in the Message back in January, Father Bernie Etienne has been honored as a recipient of the 2013 National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) Distinguished Pastor Award. On April 2, the Holy Rosary Parish, Evansville, pastor and diocesan vicar general officially accepted his award...Read full story »
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
400 wins!
Reitz Memorial High School girls basketball coach Bruce Dockery celebrates his team’s 400th win. He is with Lisa Popham, assistant principal, Dockery, Brother Lawrence Murphy, president, and Cyndi Schneider, principal....Read full story »
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Joining the Catholic Church is 'pretty awesome'
The anticipation was better than a visit from Santa, said Barb Schmitt as she prepared to be received into the Catholic Church on Holy Saturday. "Like Santa -- but more!" She's been going through the RCIA program as a catechumen at St. Joseph Parish in Jasper, and on Holy Saturday she was bap...Read full story »
Monday, April 01, 2013
Around the Diocese for April 5
It’s time someone did something Deacon Mike Seibert writes in the newsletter at St. Peter Celestine Parish, Celestine, and St. Raphael Parish, Dubois: “Seventy percent of Catholics nationwide don’t go to Mass every Sunday. “Isn’t it time someone did something? “W...Read full story »
Monday, April 01, 2013
Easter Greeting
Dear Sisters & Brothers in Christ: Alleluia! “The stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone”(cf. Psalm 118). Jesus Christ the Cornerstone has risen, indeed! !Celebramos la resurrección del Señor Jesucristo! Given the fact that our new Holy Fath...Read full story »
Saturday, March 30, 2013
5 diocesan priests celebrating golden jubilees
Five priests in the Diocese of Evansville are celebrating their golden jubilee of ordination to the priesthood today. They include Father Kenneth L. Graehler, Father Leo C. Kiesel, Msgr. Kenneth R. Knapp, Father Bernard A. Lutz and Father Earl R. Rohleder. They were ordained to the priesthoo...Read full story »
Friday, March 29, 2013
Chrism Mass reminds us of our dependence on God
On Tuesday evening, March 26, the annual Chrism Mass for the Diocese of Evansville was held at St. Benedict Cathedral in Evansville. The ceremony reminds us of our oneness with Christ through the sacrament of baptism and its holy anointing. And as Bishop Charles C. Thompson pointed out during his h...Read full story »
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Bulletin Board for March 29
General Interest Blessing of Easter Food Baskets, March 30, 11 a.m., Good Shepherd, Evansville; 11 a.m., St. John the Baptist, Newburgh. St. Mary’s Free Family Fun Night, April 4, 5-8 p.m., Koch Family Children’s Museum, Evansville; theme is stress awareness; fun and educational...Read full story »
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Mount Vernon teacher has ties to Argentina
When Michele Gondi heard the news about Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio being elected to the papacy, she didn't just smile politely and nod yes. No, she expressed her pure joy at the first Argentinean, the first South American and the first Jesuit being elected pope by jumping up and down in the hal...Read full story »
Monday, March 25, 2013
Benedictine Sister in St. Peter's Square when Pope Francis first appears
Benedictine Sister Rebecca Abel is a member of the Sisters of St. Benedict at Monastery Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand and a librarian at North American College in Rome. And when white smoke billowed out of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City on March 13, she was there to see it. “I...Read full story »
Monday, March 25, 2013
