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June 17, 2016 issue
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Local stories:
- 2016 Ordinations: Ready to serve God’s people
- Faith brings Deacon Matthew Tucci to life and a vocation to the priesthood
- Transitional Deacon Nicolas Ajpacaja Tzoc says need for Hispanic ministry in the U.S. ‘touched my heart’
- Archbishop Lori stresses importance of lay Catholics witnessing to religious liberty
- Serra Club vocations essay: Priest shows mercy to young child after the death of her father
- What was in the news on June 17, 1966? Playing God, smearing a good woman, Catholic schools run by lay people and the Index again
- ‘Kid at heart’ leads parish festival for 26th straight year
- Criterion staff honored for excellence in journalism
- Member of archdiocesan finance staff elected to board of directors for Bishops’ Plan Insurance Company
- Official Appointments
Regular local features:
- Rejoice in the Lord: The experiences and challenges of families
- Alégrense en el Señor: Realidad y desafíos de las familias
- Editorial: ‘Terrible, absurd violence’ sparks outrage, prayers
- From the Editor Emeritus: Imperiled Church - U.S. Church benefited from European turmoil
- That All May Be One: Make ‘resourcing’ of faiths part of your summer to-do list
- Reflection: Religious liberty should be the most cherished of American freedoms
- Letters to the Editor
- Seminary experience offered great lessons about spiritual life and prayer
- Events Calendar
- Office of Pro-Life and Family Life seeks nominations for Respect Life awards
- Obituaries
- General listing
- My Journey to God: My Rosary
Catholic News Service:
- Pope, bishops offer prayers for Orlando victims and their families
- Love, not perfection, leads to happiness, pope says
- Scriptures show how to rise above crises in family life
- Families in the Bible illustrate the priority of love and mercy in times of crisis
- Jesus wants people to strive for ideal, but settle disputes, pope says
- Speaker talks about men, women and ‘The Feminine Genius’
- Column: Opening new paths that help us grow in health, faith and love
- Column: Today’s technology can lead us to finding humor in contradiction
- The Sunday Readings: Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Question Corner: The Church allows reception of Communion twice a day under certain circumstances
FaithAlive!
- Marriages last when couples pray, ‘reaffirm their decision to love’
- Couples who remain faithful in marriage are a sign of God’s ‘age-old love’
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Faith brings Deacon Matthew Tucci to life and a vocation to the priesthood
Michelle Tucci has had a regular message for her children through the years. “I still tell them that you can’t get through this life without your faith.” In the case of her son transitional Deacon Matthew Tucci, he wasn’t able to get into this life without it. He was born on April 6, 1987, at 26 weeks gestation, weighing only 2 pounds, 4 ounces. (Page 1)
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Transitional Deacon Nicolas Ajpacaja Tzoc says need for Hispanic ministry in the U.S. ‘touched my heart’
Many priests throughout the history of the Church in America have felt the call to be a missionary in this country: Bishop Simon Bruté of France, St. Junipero Serra of Spain and St. Damien de Veuster of Belgium. Add transitional Deacon Nicolas Ajpacaja Tzoc of Guatemala to the list of missionaries to America. The 35-year-old transitional deacon did not move to Indiana with his family as a youth or young adult. He chose to come in his late 20s, with a specific purpose. “I wanted to be a missionary,” he says. (Page 1)
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‘Kid at heart’ leads parish festival for 26th straight year
Ask anyone what they enjoy most about parish festivals in the archdiocese and the answers—and the smiles—come easily. As for Bill Kidwell, he loves his parish festival so much that he takes a week’s vacation for it. And that comes after he’s spent months planning and coordinating one of the largest parish festivals in the archdiocese. In fact, the St. Jude Parish Festival on June 23-25 will be the 26th year that Kidwell will lead the event that enlists about 400 volunteers and draws as many as 25,000 people. (Page 10)
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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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- Family petitions N.Y. court to move body of Archbishop Sheen to Peoria
- 'A sword has pierced heart' of city, says Orlando bishop about shooting
- Doctrinal text looks at increasing harmony among church groups
- Pope offers prayers for Orlando victims of 'terrible, absurd violence'
- Pope: Euthanasia is triumph of selfishness, not act of compassion
- Alvare says gender equality is 'not to be grasped' but asserted
- Church agencies looking for answers in response to new overtime rule
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