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      • Bishop Duca Encourages Faithful to "Continue to Do Our Part" in Response to COVID-19
        January 15
        - Most Rev. Michael G. Duca
        Bishop Duca Encourages Faithful to "Continue to Do Our Part" in Response to COVID-19
        Bishop Duca has released a letter with a renewed call to observe safe procedures in this time of pandemic. It will be presented at all Masses the weekend of the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time.
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        January 13
        Racial Healing and Transformation Series Read More
      • Correction from Deacon George Hooper
        January 12
        Correction from Deacon George Hooper Read More
      • Planting good seeds in 2021
        January 12
        - Deacon Dan Borné
        Planting good seeds in 2021
        One of our seven grandchildren had a very different wish list for Christmas. Leo will be six years old this month, and when his grandmother, Lisette – he calls her Meresette – asked him what he wanted for Christmas, he said, “Seeds. I want seeds.”
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      • Admittance first step in eradicating racism
        January 12
        - Adrienne Carter
        Admittance first step in eradicating racism
        "My first real memory of personally experiencing racism was when I was one of about 20 Black girls to integrate St. Anthony Catholic High School, a small and previously all-white, all-girls’ school in north Baton Rouge. "
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      • The king of chaos and the father of lies
        January 12
        - Fr. John Carville
        The king of chaos and the father of lies
        There must be an end to lying and hypocrisy as the chief strategy of our politics.
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        And so it ends. A year that brought unprecedented death, despair and destruction finally gasped its last breath only (depending on when you reading this) hours ago.
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        Today, more than ever, we need inspiring stories about women and men, young and old, who have lived out heroic virtue. Without such ideals to emulate, we too quickly identify moral virtue with human...
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        If resolutions were wishes, resolution number one for nearly everyone would probably be, “May I never see another year like 2020.” 
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        Does living a commitment to justice as a part of our Catholic faith make our lives more difficult? Yes, definitely. That’s part of the way we know our theology means something.
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