Jubilanians Celebrate Years of Ministry

Eight men, representing 320 years of ministry celebrate their anniversaries of ordination in 2017. Bishop Edward K. Braxton, principal celebrant and homilist, celebrated a special liturgy, honoring those men June 5 at the cathedral.

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Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School in Herrin Taking Shape

A new school is taking shape right before their eyes at Our Lady of Mt. Caramel in Herrin. Msgr. Kenneth Schaefer, pastor, checks on the building’s progress every day, he said.

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MSA Picnic for Long-term Care Residents Turns 40

It couldn’t have been a more perfect day for a picnic for residents of long-term care facilities, and the diocesan Ministry to Sick and Aged — MSA — couldn’t have been more delighted.

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People Work to Make Houses Homes

People from many places both in the diocese and from St. Louis gather when it’s time to build a home. This year, East Side Heart and Home Family Center is building its 21st home, making it possible for a dream to come true for a family.

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Poor Clare makes First Profession May 13

Sister Miryam of the Holy Family professed her simple profession as a Poor Clare nun May 13 in the chapel of the Poor Clare Monastery in Belleville.

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A Look Back to June 22, 1979: St. Joseph, Cobden Parish Bible School

Three members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame volunteered to conduct a two-week Bible School program for parish youth, Father Ted Baumann, pastor, reported.

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Germantown Family Remembers Brother Memorial Day

When the boys and girls went off to war in the 1940s to fight and die in WWII or to do the same in the 1950s during the Korean Conflict or the many “Operation” names of battles in Iraq and Afghanistan, they were thanked and applauded for their service. But one war stands out as the one where military veterans were not applauded or feted or thanked.

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St. Teresa in Belleville celebrates 50-year anniversary

Msgr. David Darin sprinkles the people during the May 7 liturgy celebrating the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the current St. Teresa Church in Belleville. (St. Teresa Parish was founded in 1926.)

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Father Joseph Oganda Reads The Messenger

The diocesan Catholic newspaper has asked a number of people in the diocese why they read the paper.
The Messenger reaches out; it evangelizes, according to Father Joseph Oganda, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Du Quoin.

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Bishop Braxton Delivers Message to Diocese at Vatican development Meeting

The work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to promote the "integral human development" of all peoples is a work that must continue today in the world and in the Catholic Church, Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, told participants at a Vatican conference.

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Bishop Braxton Reflects on the Museum of African American History and Culture in Essay

We, Too, Sing America: The Catholic Church and the Museum of African American History and Culture January 15, 2017 published as an essay written in commemoration of the 88th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., January 15, 1929 — April 4, 1968

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Bishop Braxton Publishes New Pastoral Letter

"The Catholic Church
and The Black Lives Matter Movement:
The Racial Divide in the United States Revisited"
Bishop Edward K. Braxton has published a pastoral letter that builds on his previous pastoral letter published in 2o15. "This Pastoral...Read more