Katie Ledecky smiles after winning the women's 800-meter freestyle final of the 2017 FINA Swimming World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, July 29. (CNS photo/Tamas Kovacs, EPA)

Catholic swimmer Katie Ledecky named AP Female Athlete of the Year

Posted by - January 6, 2018

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Associated Press named Katie Ledecky the Female Athlete of the Year Dec. 26, after balloting by U.S. editors and news directors. Ledecky, a graduate of Little Flower School and Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Maryland, received 351 points in the vote, placing her ahead of tennis star

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Pope Francis raises the Book of the Gospels in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican April 13. He advised members of the Italian Theological Association Dec. 29 that theologians and other church workers must always refer back to Vatican II where the church recognized its responsibility to "proclaim the Gospel in a new way." (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Complex world needs clear essentials of Gospel, pope tells theologians

Posted by - January 6, 2018

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In an increasingly complex world of unprecedented scientific and technological challenges, theologians must communicate what is essential about life and help Christians proclaim God’s merciful, saving grace, Pope Francis told a group of Italian theologians. The theologians’ task requires being “faithful and anchored” to the teachings of the Second Vatican Council

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Firemen evaluate the scene of an apartment fire in the Bronx borough of New York City Dec. 28. City officials report 12 people died in the fire that was started by a 3-year old boy playing with the burners on a kitchen stove. (CNS photo/Amr Alfiky, Reuters)

Priest asks for prayers for victims of Bronx fire and their families

Posted by - January 6, 2018

WASHINGTON (CNS) — A priest in the Bronx, New York, tended to grieving families and asked for prayers for them as well as for victims of a Dec. 28 fire, one of the deadliest in New York City and the borough’s history, which left at least 12 dead and many fighting for their lives. Father

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Catholic Schools Week 2018

Posted by - January 6, 2018

Later this month, Mount Carmel School will join Eskuelan San Francisco de Borja on Rota and Catholic schools across the nation in celebrating Catholic Schools Week or CSW 2018. This year’s CSW theme is “Catholic Schools: Learn. Serve. Lead. Succeed” which encompasses the core products and values that can be found in Catholic schools across

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Five Deacon Candidates to be installed as Acolytes

Posted by - January 6, 2018

This coming Saturday, Jan 13th, Bishop Ryan P. Jimenez will install five aspirants to the Permanent Deaconate as Acolytes. This is an important step towards diaconal ordination. The church reminds us that before anyone may be promoted to the diaconate, whether permanent or transitory, he must have received the ministries of lector and acolyte, and

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Thirteen couples from different parishes in Saipan received the Holy Sacrament of Matrimony last Saturday, December 30, 2017 during the Group Wedding Liturgy at Mt. Carmel Cathedral. His Excellency Ryan P. Jimenez, DD, officiated the wedding and con-celebrated by Fr. Harold Funa, Fr. Phillip Rollon Jr, OAR and Fr. Jason A. Granado.

A New Year, A New Beginning
13 Couples Received Sacrament of Holy Matrimony

Posted by - January 6, 2018

Thirteen couples have begun their New Year striding into a new beginning in their relationships and in their journey in faith. On Saturday, December 30th, on the eve of the Feast of the Holy Family, His Excellency Ryan P. Jimenez, DD officiated the wedding of the couples at Mt. Carmel Cathedral. “For me, this event

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The Beginnings: Christian captives, an Order of Mercy, a Re-founding Call to be Missionaries

Posted by - January 6, 2018

[In preparation for the 90th Anniversary of the arrival of the MMB Sisters to Saipan on March 4th, we desire to share with you (with slight editing) the original series authored by Sr. Mary Ann Becmer, MMB in 2002-3. She is now a General Councilor of the community in Rome.] As we reflect back on

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Catholic Culture Part 2

Posted by - January 6, 2018

(This is a continuation of a series of reflections drawing on the core values mentioned in the Diocese of CK pastoral plan) So, what is involved when we apply these meanings of culture to the concept of Catholic culture? When I was a child I lived in a neighborhood that was comprised primarily of German

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The Principle of Subsidiarity (Catholic social teaching, Part 7)

Posted by - January 6, 2018

…all the while ensuring the common good of all (which, as a reminder, means to ensure the good of everyone without exception, not to try to secure the greatest good for the greatest number of people). The principle of subsidiarity builds on those foundations and then goes on to specify that government, the social body

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EPIFANIA

Posted by - January 6, 2018

FINE’NA NA TINAITAI                                                                              Is 60, 1-6 Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun i Prufeta as Isaias Kahulu’ gi mina’lak-mu, O Hirusalen! Måttu esta i ininå-mu, i glorian i Saina mani’ina giya hågu. Atan sa’ i hinemhum ha tåmpi i tanu’ ya potput na mapagåhis tumåmpi i taotåo siha; Låo giya hågu na mani’ina i Saina,

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