By Michael Horan | Special to The Michigan Catholic Ortonville — In the fourth and final special liturgy to mark the feast day of St. Anne in the Archdiocese of Detroit, hundreds of parishioners gathered in Ortonville to celebrate Mass and recognize the local Church’s patron saint. CLICK HERE FOR A PHOTO GALLERY OF ALL...
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LIVONIA — Jenifer Cwiek knows the effect a NET retreat can have on young persons, because she experienced one when she was an eighth-grader preparing for confirmation. “They are on fire and they are passionate,” she says about the young adults — post-high school through mid-20s — who conduct the retreats. Now, at 19,...
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Detroit — Part of the financial problems of the Archdiocese of Detroit stem from overdue and uncollectible loans to its Loan Deposit Program, Archbishop Allen Vigneron disclosed earlier this week. The Loan Deposit Program, known as the LDP, is a cooperative savings, investment, and lending program into which Catholic parishes, schools and other institutions...
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Warren — There was a new aspect to this year’s local observances of the feast of St. Anne, now that the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary has been officially recognized as patroness of the Archdiocese of Detroit. Although St. Anne Parish in Warren celebrated July 26 just as it has been doing in...
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Dolan: U.S. church had ‘highest respect, deepest affection’ for nuncio
Catholic News Service Washington – Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the apostolic nuncio to the United States since early 2006, “enjoyed the highest respect and deepest affection” of the U.S. bishops and the nation’s Catholics, said New York Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Archbishop Sambi, 73, died July 27...
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