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All Saints & All Souls: Indulgences and our place in the Communion of Saints

All Saints & All Souls: Indulgences and our place in the Communion of Saints

Editor’s note: Nov. 1 and Nov. 2 are All Saints Day and All Souls Day, respectively. Archbishop Allen Vigneron offers the following column to the faithful regarding these holy days: “The souls of the just are in the hand of God, and no torment shall touch them.  They seemed, in the view of the...
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Readers laud local priests

Detroit— It doesn’t take much to get Catholics in metro Detroit talking about their favorite priests. In response to a small item in a prior issue of The Michigan Catholic, parish members throughout the Archdiocese of Detroit have been writing in to share a kind word about their pastors, teachers, mentors, confessors and priest friends....
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From Our Readers

Fr. Charles Ratnasamy is a great priest! We were blessed to have him at St. Thecla Parish in Clinton Township for a brief time, during which he touched so many with his spirituality, kindness, knowledge, gentleness and humility. He brought back Eucharistic Adoration (so-needed during our time), Bible study, Pro-life support, and a genuine...
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Dolan: U.S. church had ‘highest respect, deepest affection’ for nuncio

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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