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Father Ryan Ford will lead a Men’s Day of Reflection on Saturday, March 1 at St. Michael Catholic Church in Marquette. The event is free to all men across the Catholic Diocese of Marquette, as it is funded by a Diocesan Mission Grant and St. Michael Parish. Fr. Ryan, the Vicar for Evangelization & Catechesis for the diocese, will address “Burning Hearts: Set on Fire by the Eucharistic Love of Jesus.” The Eucharist is the source of Christian life. In this day of reflection, Fr. Ryan will help participants understand how the Eucharist connects to daily life in the world and ...

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(AP) — The sense of Catholic unity didn’t last long. Less than a week after Vice President JD Vance shared the inauguration stage with a senior Catholic cardinal, Vance picked a fight with the top American leaders of his church. The new vice president, a Catholic convert, accused the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops of resettling “illegal immigrants” in order to get federal funding. New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who gave the invocation shortly before Vance took his oath of office, denounced the remarks as “scurrilous” and “nasty.” Vance has claimed that a ...

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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has long urged couples to marry and have babies rather than dogs. And he has long championed the rights of workers and held up labor itself as the foundation of human dignity. So it has come as something of a surprise to many in the Holy See that the Vatican bank fired a newlywed couple, with three young children between them, after a new internal bank regulation went into effect barring workplace marriages. The apparent contradiction between what the pope preaches and what his Vatican practices isn’t lost on Silvia Carlucci and Domenico Fabiani, who on ...

After 80 years, not many Auschwitz survivors are left; one man tells stories

HAIFA, Israel (AP) — Naftali Furst will never forget his first view of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on Nov. 3, 1944. He was 12 years old. SS soldiers threw open the doors of the cattle car, where he was crammed in with his mother, father, brother, and more than 80 others. He remembers the tall chimneys of the crematoria, flames roaring from the top. There were dogs and officers yelling in German “get out, get out!” forcing people to jump onto the infamous ramp where Nazi doctor Josef Mengele separated children from parents. Furst, now 92, is one of a dwindling ...

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Music, Scripture, social science, dialogue and silence were all part of the Women’s Day of Reflection recently held at St. Michael Parish. The church welcomed back its former cantor and minister of liturgy and faith formation, Melanie Coddington, as the event’s speaker, who also led the ...

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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis fell Thursday and hurt his right arm, the Vatican said, just weeks after another apparent fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin. Francis didn’t break his arm, but a sling was put on as a precaution, the Vatican spokesman said in a statement On Dec. 7, the pope whacked his chin on his nightstand in an apparent fall that resulted in a bad bruise. The 88-year-old pope, who has battled health problems including long bouts of bronchitis, often has to use a wheelchair because of bad knees. He uses a walker or cane when moving around his apartment in the ...