MCS students show gains in national standardized tests

Posted by - August 4, 2017

MOUNT CARMEL School announced that its students fared very well in recently administered SAT-10 and College Board AP national standardized tests. The results show significant improvement in all subjects across all grade levels. On average, students performed at or above the 50th percentile on the SAT-10 and improved from the previous year. For the complete

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Office of Religious Education Conducts Workshop for New CCD Catechists

Posted by - August 4, 2017

By: Rose R. Gamier Catechists are called to a ministry…a vocation…a call Who is a catechist? This was beautifully explained last Sunday, July 30, 2017, at a workshop held at the Mount Carmel Cathedral CCD office. A total of 29 participants – some CCD coordinators and new volunteer catechists came to the said gathering. It

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Dutch police search a Spanish truck at the border after nine immigrants were rescued from the freezer of the vehicle in early February in Hazeldonk, Netherlands. The truck driver was arrested as a suspect of human trafficking. (CNS photo/Marcel van Dorst - MaRicMedia, EPA)

Pope leads prayers for victims of ‘perverse plague’ of trafficking

Posted by - August 4, 2017

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Human trafficking is “brutal, savage and criminal,” Pope Francis said, but often it seems like people see it as a sad, but normal fact of life. “I want to call everyone to make a commitment to seeing that this perverse plague, a modern form of slavery, is effectively countered,” the pope

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Leonard DiVittorio of the New York borough of Queens poses for a photo July 23 outside the Basilica of Ste.-Anne-de-Beaupre in Quebec. DiVittorio has been organizing the Ahearn Memorial Pilgrimage to the basilica. (CNS photo/Philippe Vaillancourt, Presence)

Americans end pilgrimage to Canadian shrine after 95 years

Posted by - August 4, 2017

STE.-ANNE-DE-BEAUPRE, Quebec (CNS) — Leonardo DiVittorio approached the statue of St. Anne. As part of the opening ceremony of the feast of the grandmother of Jesus July 25, he laid a wreath of flowers, a symbolic gesture intended to mark the Ahearn Memorial Pilgrimage’s 95th and last visit at the Basilica of Ste.-Anne-de-Beaupre. His face

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The solar eclipse of Aug. 21 is the first to cross the United States from coast to coast in 99 years. About 12.2 million people live in the path of totality and millions more are expected to travel into it to view the rare event. (CNS/Nancy Wiechec)

Upcoming eclipse a sign of end times? Hardly so, Wisconsin priest says

Posted by - August 4, 2017

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The word from some quarters is that the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse is a harbinger of the end times, but one Wisconsin priest hardly thinks so. Father James Kurzynski, an amateur astronomer, said the cross-country eclipse is an opportunity to reflect on humanity’s relationship to creation and build stronger bonds with

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Young Japanese women take a selfie in Tokyo Jan. 9. Catholic Asian Youth Day is set for Aug. 2-6 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. (CNS photo/Kiyoshi Ota, EPA)

Asian Youth Day kicks off in Indonesia with days in diocese

Posted by - August 4, 2017

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (CNS) — More than 2,000 young people from 21 Asian countries arrived in Indonesia to celebrate Asian Youth Day, which kicked off with the preliminary three-day live-in program beginning July 30. Modeled on World Youth Day’s Days in the Dioceses, the live-in program allows young participants to stay with local Catholic families in

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Love Your Neighbors, even the haters

Posted by - August 4, 2017

Have you seen this bumper sticker? There are a few different versions out there about what people mean by putting this on their vehicles. Some people think it is similar to the other sticker or t-shirt that says, “Haters make me famous.” It’s kind of like saying, “I’m getting lots of attention. Yay me.” Maybe

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Diocese Revised CCD Admission Policy, Introduced RCIA

Posted by - August 4, 2017

As the new CCD school year begins in the Fall, the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa will implement its revised CCD admission policy. It will also introduce for the first time a diocesan policy for RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults). During the clergy meeting last July 25, 2017 at Maturana House of Prayer, Sr.

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I TRANSFIGURASION I SAINA

Posted by - August 4, 2017

FINE’NA NA TINAITAI Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun i Prufeta as Daniel                                       Dn 7, 9-10, 13-14 Mientras si Daniel ha a’atan: Manmahåtsa tronu siha ya i Amku’ humånåo para i tronu-ña. Ma’lak kalang niebi i magagu-ña, ya i gaputilu-ña acha’apaka’ yan magagun låna; Ma’lak kalang finañila’ guåfi i tronu-ña, ya i ruedå-ña mañiñila’ guåfi. Mimilalak

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Passing on the Faith (Part 2)

Posted by - August 4, 2017

Religion, as a social institution, has a variety of social functions, as well as more spiritually oriented roles. From the perspective of society, religion provides a model for organizing society, provides both a legitimization of and check upon authority, and is a source for social norms and a means of enforcing such social norms. From

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