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September 13, 2013 issue
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Local stories:
- Murder mystery and ‘moo-ving experience’ are among offbeat ideas helping teens raise NCYC funds
- Events to highlight ongoing struggle to defend religious liberty
- What was in the news on Sept. 13, 1963? Catholic intellectuals seek a rights charter, and additional sessions of Vatican II are foreseen
- Donation provides barns, community center in area struck by tornadoes
Religious Education Supplement
- Column: Parish small groups help Catholics grow closer to Jesus
- Small church communities help Catholics grow in faith with pastoral component
- Movements, apostolates and groups add variety to small groups, can enliven parish ministries
- Parish groups draw closer in faith and friendship through prayer together
- Tips for parish small groups
- Books lay out guiding principles for small groups in parishes
Regular local features:
- Editorial: Being grateful stewards and grateful believers
- From the Editor Emeritus: Year of Faith - What is the meaning of life?
- Cornucopia: Learning the scientific way to establish a cult
- Twenty Something: The art of saying ‘no’
- Be Our Guest: Life lessons learned 40 years ago still apply to today’s youths
- Letters to the Editor
- Now is time for just and compassionate immigration reform
- Events Calendar
- Donate items for free admission to Indy Irish Fest on Sept. 15
- Obituaries
- General listing
- My Journey to God: Twilight to Daylight
Catholic News Service:
- Thousands in Rome, throughout archdiocese armed with power of prayer in fight for peace
- Pope calls selfishness the cause of war
- Christians and Muslims join Pope Francis in praying for peace in Syria
- Military archdiocese remembers sainthood candidate killed in Vietnam
- Column: Pope Francis: Redefining the meaning of real joy and being Church
- The Sunday Readings: Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Question Corner: The Church allows for debate on some questions related to Jesus and Mary
FaithAlive!
- All Catholics can enjoy the fruits of meditative prayer
- ‘Lectio divina’ can be an effective way of praying with Scripture
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Murder mystery and ‘moo-ving experience’ are among offbeat ideas helping teens raise NCYC funds
An unlikely group came together to form the characters in a murder mystery-dinner show that raised $1,500 for the youths of St. Mary Parish in Greensburg to attend the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC) in Indianapolis on Nov. 21-23. It’s just one of the fun and innovative fundraisers that Catholic youth groups across the archdiocese have developed to make it possible for their high school students to deepen their faith during a three-day event that brought together 23,000 Catholic teenagers from around the country in 2011. (Page 1)
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Donation provides barns, community center in area struck by tornadoes
Fred Burns stood on a gravel path looking down on a hillside pasture on his farm near Pekin. “I had nine outbuildings, and the tornado took all of them,” he said. Enter Mercury One, a philanthropic organization founded by radio and television personality Glenn Beck. Part of the organization’s mission focuses on disaster relief. In May, a representative from Mercury One reached out to David Siler, executive director of Catholic Charities for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. (Page 16)
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Web-only features
Parish festival listing -- many still scheduled
Our parish festival listings were included in our annual Vacation/Travel Supplement in May, but we keep them up all summer and into the fall, 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.
Go to our parish festival listing
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, writing in secular newspaper, urges dialogue with nonbelievers
- Catholic colleges, universities find top spots in U.S. News rankings
- Pope hears officials' input on reforming Vatican bureaucracy
- Push on immigration legislation builds on prayer, fasting and preaching
- Vatican's new top diplomat ready to ramp up network for peace
- Christians, Muslims join Pope Francis in praying for peace in Syria
- Pope calls for 'war against evil,' including illegal arms trade
- Praying for peace in Syria, pope calls selfishness the cause of war
- Thousands flock to Rome armed with power of prayer in fight for peace
- College leaders say plan to reduce student loan debt needs improvement
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