CCD TEACHERS, TEACHER AIDS AND VOLUNTEERS COMMISSIONING
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Diocese of Chalan Kanoa Opens New CCD School Year
The new school year for CCD kicks-off this weekend in all the parishes around the diocese. Sr. Nina Caccam, SJBP, who is the director of the Office of Religious Education is expecting an increase of enrollment once again following the trend and statistics in the past few years. Last year’s CCD enrollment was 976 students
Disciple or Church-goer?
Perhaps you have been asked by a friend or loved one, “Why is it important for me to go to church? If God is everywhere, then what is so special about the church? Why do some go to church but their actions seem so far from being Christian? I admit these are difficult questions and
Religious Liberty (Part 1)
One of the least understood and most complex debates that has been raging the past few years, particularly in the United States, is the “religious liberty” controversy. It is at the heart of Church and government relationships. In this and a few subsequent issues of Along the Way I will try to explain what the debate is
XXVI DAMENGGU GI UTDINÅRIU NA TIEMPU
FINE’NA NA TINAITAI Ez 18, 25-28 Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun i Prufeta as Ezekiel Taiguini ilek-ña i Saina: Ilik-miyu na, “Ti tunas i bidan i Saina!” Ekkunguk Yu’ på’gu, hamyu ni taotåo Israhet: Kåo i bidå-hu ti tunas, osino, i bidan-miyu ti tunas? Yanggin i tinas na tåotåo ha bira gui’ ginin
Don’t look away; be moved by tragedy and help, pope says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — People need to have true compassion so they feel others’ pain and are moved to help, Pope Francis said. “Compassion is an emotion that engages, it is a feeling from the heart, from the gut,” affecting one’s entire being, the pope said Sept. 19 during morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae
Pope prays for victims of Mexico quake
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As search and rescue operations continued in central Mexico, where more than 200 people died after a strong earthquake Sept. 19, Pope Francis offered his prayers for the victims. “May our mother, the Virgin of Guadalupe, with great tenderness be near the beloved Mexican nation,” the pope said in Spanish Sept.
For working priests, distance-learning evangelization degree is godsend
DETROIT (CNS) — Father Joseph Kim serves in a diocese divided. On one side of the valley, there are the billionaires: the Facebooks, the Googles, the Apples. On the other side, there are the poor. In the middle, there are priests such as him, striving to bring one Gospel to all of them. “Our diocese
Pope expands scope of John Paul II institute on marriage, family
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — To better prepare priests and pastoral workers to help meet the challenges families face today, Pope Francis is strengthening the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family and changing its name to the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for the Sciences of Marriage and Family. The