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Kansas diocese opens new seminary more than 20 years in the making
The program’s first priests were ordained in 2024, with 10 to date and three Kansas dioceses — Wichita, Salina and Dodge City — served by the soon-to-be-seminary.
Month: August 2026
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Parishioners Throw Porch Party for 90-Year-Old ‘Parish Legend’
Friends, neighbors and priests gather around Bob MacStoker on the front porch of his Garden City, New York, home during a surprise celebration of his 90th birthday. Friends, neighbors and …
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Msgr. Rossetti resumes deliverance ministry after removal as DC exorcist
The priest’s St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal will resume its activities with a Sept. 28 online deliverance prayer session.
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Why the Feast of St. Dominic Is Not Actually the Dominicans’ Biggest Feast Day
St. Dominic by Fra Angelico While the August feast is ‘always a feast’ for Dominicans, it’s not the primary one.
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Beatification Process Begins for American Missionary Juan Tomis
A native of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Msgr. Juan Tomis Stack served for more than two decades as a missionary in northern Peru. On various occasions, Pope Leo XIV has referenced the …
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Patriarch Kirill, in new book, calls on Russians not to shirk ‘duty to be victors’ (CWN)
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church argued in a new book that the Russian people have a “great responsibility not to shirk their historical duty to be victors.”
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The dominant culture has ‘permeated ecclesial circles,’ Cardinal Sarah warns in wide-ranging interview (Il Foglio)
The prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments warned that “the dominant culture has permeated ecclesial circles, and even preachers are not immune …
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Relic, 2 tabernacles desecrated at Madrid parish following repeated vandalism (El Debate)
A relic of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and two tabernacles were desecrated at a Madrid parish. “Because during the month of August the parish has no activity, the parish priest …
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Beatification process begins for American missionary Juan Tomis
On various occasions, Pope Leo XIV has referenced the Bridgeport, Connecticut, native as a major inspiration for his own vocation. A native of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Monsignor Juan Tomis Stack served …
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Beatification process begins for American missionary Juan Tomis
Chiclayo, Peru, Bishop Edinson Farfán Córdova announced that in the coming months his diocese will begin the cause for the beatification and canonization of Monsignor Juan Tomis Stack. Tomis, an …