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Library Refurbished at CCSJ
New and returning students at Calumet College of St. Joseph will find new and better places to meet and study in the newly refurbished campus library. The college, in Whiting, Ind., is sponsored by the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. The library project, which...
St. Charles to Host Lay Formation Classes
The Archdiocese of Cincinnati will offer its lay ecclesial ministry program beginning in September at St. Charles Center in Carthagena, Ohio. The two-year program includes Saturday courses in such topics as Old and New Testament Scripture; Church history; basic...
Bringing Love to the World
By Brother Brian Boyle, C.PP.S. The readings today are challenges to look outside of our inner circles, niches, tribes, et cetera. The first reading tells how the apostles filled the twelfth slot that was left behind by Judas. The apostles may have already been in...
Book Explores New Life in Church
The new edition of a book by Fr. Dennis Chriszt, C.PP.S., is meant to help lay staff and volunteers put together an effective and spiritually fruitful Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults program in a parish. The second edition of Creating an Effective Mystagogy: A...
Fr. Ralph Verdi, C.PP.S., 1944-2021
September 21, 1944 – May 10, 2021 Fr. Ralph Verdi, C.PP.S., 76, died at 6:35 a.m. on Monday, May 10, 2021, in the infirmary at St. Charles Center, Carthagena, Ohio. He had been in failing health. Fr. Verdi was born on September 21, 1944, in New York to Ralph C. and...