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St. Patrick Catholic Church in Charleston gets $500K preservation grant
The matching funds will support the historic Black parish’s capital campaign, with the end goal of an onsite African American heritage center
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Finding connections with recipes that speak from the grave
On All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, we remember the believers who lived before us. And we can find a bit of sweetness in Rosie Grant’s To Die For: A …
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All Souls Day
All Souls Day Feast date: Nov 02 The commemoration of all the faithful departed is celebrated by the Church on November 2, or, if this falls on a Sunday or a …
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The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed
The souls of the just are in the hand of God, and no torment shall touch them.They seemed, in the view of the foolish, to be dead; and their passing …
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Nov. 2 The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day), Commem.
Today is the Commemoration of the All the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day). The Church, after celebrating the feast of All Saints, today prays for all who, in the purifying …
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Litany of St. John Henry Cardinal Newman
Statue of John Henry Newman, by Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud, outside Brompton Oratory in London. (Image: Another Believer/Wikipedia) With grateful hearts, let us invoke the intercession of St. John Henry Cardinal Newman, …
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A Eucharistic Way of Life
(Image: Josh Applegate/Unsplash.com) Some fifty years ago, I spent a five-day retreat on a small island off the coast of Mystic, Connecticut. On each day of the retreat, I concentrated …
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Detainees denied communion at Illinois detention facility
Scene from Nov. 1, 2025 Mass outside the Broadview facility in Chicago where immigration advocates allege federal authorities inhumanely treat detainees. | Credit: Kathleen Murphy/CNA Chicago, Illinois, Nov 1, 2025 …
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All Souls Days and our mortal end
Detail of “All Souls’ Day” (1910) by Aladar Korosfoi-Kriesch. (Image: WikiArt.org) Readings:• Wis 3:1-9• Psa 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6• Rom 6:3-9• Jn 6:37-40 “I’ve always had a hard time explaining …
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Hundreds killed in Darfur hospital massacre amid Sudan’s deadly civil war
Displaced Sudanese who fled El-Fasher after the city fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), arrive in the town of Tawila war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region on October 28, 2025. …