Deacon Steven James Mateja Age: 32 Parents: David and Linda Mateja of Westland, members of St. Theodore of Canterbury Parish inWestland Education: Edison Elementary, Marshall Junior High and John Glenn High School, all in Westland; Schoolcraft Community College, Livonia; and Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, where he earned Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Bachelor...
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By Tim Keenan | The Michigan Catholic Detroit— African-American Catholics in Detroit are “Pressing Toward Pentecost” with a high level of energy, spiritual excitement and volume. “Pressing Toward Pentecost” is the theme of the Archdiocese of Detroit’s Black Catholic Ministries’ Hour of Power Revival Series, a four-week program of Wednesday evening revival services between...
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Salvador Gomez recalls uncles in Mexican religious rights conflict Detroit — When Salvador Gomez was growing up in Mexico, he heard stories of the 1926-29 armed resistance to the Mexican government’s campaign to control and suppress the Catholic Church. Known as the Cristero War or Cristero Rebellion, the movement involved lay Catholics and even...
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Detroit—Mexico’s Catholics have kept their faith alive despite official government policies hostile to the Church through much of the country’s history as an independent nation. The roots of Mexico’s 1926-29 Cristero War can be traced to an anti-Catholic strain in the ruling circles of Mexican society going back to the time of the Mexican...
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Detroit — Parishioners of St. Clare of Montefalco Parish, Grosse Pointe Park, learned the weekend of May 6 that the Augustinian Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel, based in Chicago, will withdraw from administering the parish as of Aug. 1. The religious order has served at the parish since its foundation in 1926,...
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