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July 3, 2015 issue
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Local stories:
- Making a world of difference: CYO honors camp’s first counselor for helping to create legacy of fun, friendship and faith
- Despite ruling, Church’s marriage teaching unchanged
- Statement from Archbishop Tobin on Supreme Court marriage ruling
- Despite Supreme Court ruling, religious freedom rally participants implored to stand strong in their faith
- ‘A new generation of the Church’: Bishop Bruté Days helps teenage boys learn about the faith, priesthood
- Serra Club vocations essay: Prayer, engagement in parish are aids in discernment
- What was in the news on July 2, 1965? Pope Paul looks at problems of the Church, and a complaint about the translation of the Mass
- Father Rodas celebrates 50 years of ‘leading people to the kingdom’
Regular local features:
- Rejoice in the Lord: When families are strong, society is strong
- Alégrense en el Señor: Cuando las familias son fuertes, también lo es la sociedad
- Editorial: Court decision must lead to respectful dialogue, especially about families
- From the Editor Emeritus: Early Church - Pope Damasus took the papacy by force
- It's All Good: Forget that device, make time to be fully present to others
- Be Our Guest: Church can do many things to respond to pope’s encyclical on environment
- Letters to the Editor
- Column’s headline is offensive and unchristian, reader says
- Events Calendar
- Spiritual Direction Training Program to be offered in Kentucky
- RSVP seeks volunteers ages 55+
- Benedict Inn to host ‘Garden Treasures with Women of the Bible’ retreat on July 5-6
- Office of Pro-Life and Family Life seeks nominations for Respect Life awards
- Obituaries
- General listing
- Edward O’Mara, 79, a veteran of the U.S. Marines, the father of Father Michael O’Mara, died on June 5
- My Journey to God: True Personal Freedom
Catholic News Service:
- Health care subsidy ruling hailed by many, but criticism continues
- Vatican signs agreement with Palestine, calls for two-state solution
- Pope to archbishops: Be brave, convincing witnesses for Church
- Analyzing ruling’s implications will take time, say Church officials
- Helping the poor involves Knights in faith in ‘deep way,’ says Anderson
- Supporters of pope’s ecological teachings gather in St. Peter’s Square
- Pope Francis tells parents to be mindful of children’s suffering
- Court upholds execution drug protocol criticized as cruel and unusual
- Texas Catholic Conference disappointed by court ruling on abortion law
- St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s parents will be first married couple canonized together
- Column: Live in the present, not the past, each and every day
- Column: Lessons for life found in the Earth and in Scripture
- The Sunday Readings: Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Question Corner: Punishment for sins is restricted to the people who committed them
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‘A new generation of the Church’: Bishop Bruté Days helps teenage boys learn about the faith, priesthood
Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary in Indianapolis overflowed with a youthful love for faith and fun on June 16-19 during its 10th annual Bishop Bruté Days. The four-day gathering is a retreat and camping experience sponsored by the seminary for teenage boys open to the possibility that God might be calling them to the priesthood. More than 40 teenage boys from 22 parishes across central and southern Indiana and others from the Gary, Ind., and Lafayette, Ind., dioceses participated this year. (Page 9)
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Despite Supreme Court ruling, religious freedom rally participants implored to stand strong in their faith
A day after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws and constitutional amendments that defined marriage exclusively as between one man and one woman in a ruling fraught with possible implications for religious freedom, Catholics and other Christians from around the state gathered on the grounds of the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis for a rally in support of that liberty. (Page 7)
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Archbishop Tobin
Web-only features
Parish festival listing -- all summer long
Our parish festival listings were included one of our issues in May, but we keep them up all summer, posting periodic corrections and additions. Got a spare weekend? Check our listings at any time via the link below to see where the fun will be each week.
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National and world news you may have missed...
Here's a sampling of some news stories that ran on our website this past week or so that you may have missed.
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- Pope's visits to Cuba, U.S. to highlight families, charity, tolerance
- Texas Catholic Conference disappointed by court ruling on abortion law
- Court upholds execution drug protocol criticized as cruel and unusual
- St. Therese's parents to be first married couple canonized together
- USCCB president calls Supreme Court ruling on marriage 'tragic error'
- Archbishop Lori opens Fortnight for Freedom with Gospel connection
- Pope Francis contemplates Shroud of Turin, calls it 'icon of love'
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