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detroitcatholic.com | Gabriella Patti |Charles Fox |Greg Erlandson
From the Philippines to the U.S., Vanessa Veridiano-Powell lives out her passion through her business, 'My Dream Garden'ALLEN PARK — It took St. Frances Cabrini parishioner Vanessa Veridiano-Powell six years of trial and error to figure out how to garden successfully in the United States. Her goal is not only to eliminate obstacles and shorten the journey to a full, thriving garden for her customers, but also to show them what gardening can teach them about life and faith.
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5 days ago | 
detroitcatholic.com | Charles Fox |Greg Erlandson
VATICAN CITY (CNS) ─ The Catholic Church, its ministers and its members must find new ways to reach out to and welcome families who are distant from the church and have no understanding of how much God loves them, Pope Leo XIV said. Writing to 40 theologians and pastoral ministers participating in a seminar on evangelizing with families, the pope said the first goal of outreach is to help people longing for love and meaning to find that in Jesus.
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5 days ago | 
detroitcatholic.com | Charles Fox |Greg Erlandson
NEW YORK (OSV News) ─ Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York urged Empire State lawmakers to reject legislation that would legalize physician-assisted suicide. The New York Assembly April 29 passed a bill that would allow a terminally ill adult with a prognosis of six months or less to request from a physician a medication that would hasten his or her death, which the state's Catholic bishops oppose.
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5 days ago | 
detroitcatholic.com | Katarzyna Szalajko |Charles Fox |Greg Erlandson
WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) ─ Their names may have faded from history books, but on May 31, the Church officially remembered them forever. In a solemn ceremony in Braniewo, northeastern Poland, 15 nuns from the Congregation of St. Catherine Virgin and Martyr, were beatified -- recognized as martyrs who gave their lives during the final, brutal months of World War II. The sisters were killed in 1945 as Soviet troops advanced into the region.
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5 days ago | 
detroitcatholic.com | Gina Christian |Charles Fox |Greg Erlandson
(OSV News) ─ Amid the Trump administration's crackdown on foreign student visas, at least two Catholic universities contacted by OSV News said they are actively seeking to support affected students. "Our international students, scholars and their families are important and vital members of our campus community, and we will continue working to ensure that they are welcomed and supported at Notre Dame," the University of Notre Dame told OSV News in an emailed statement May 29.
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5 days ago | 
detroitcatholic.com | Wright Wilson |Charles Fox |Greg Erlandson
MIDLAND — Few doubted Ann Arbor Greenhills’ ability to win its fourth consecutive tennis state championship, especially with 11 of 12 players returning from last year’s title-winning squad, and seven of eight flights seeded first going into the weekend tournament at the Midland Tennis Center. Sophia Kleer, who was half of an unranked duo at the second doubles flight, didn’t doubt her team’s abilities, either.
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5 days ago | 
detroitcatholic.com | Charles Fox |Greg Erlandson
VATICAN CITY (CNS) ─ In a tribute to Pope Francis and his message of hope for the Jubilee Year, elite cyclists rode through Vatican City and its gardens before starting the last stage of the Giro d'Italia in Rome. The 159 cyclists from 29 countries whooshed past Swiss Guards and Vatican police at the gates to the tiny Vatican City State and made a short pit stop in the sunny square dedicated to the Roman Protomartyrs next to the sacristy of St. Peter’s Basilica June 1.
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5 days ago | 
detroitcatholic.com | Kimberley A. Heatherington |Charles Fox |Greg Erlandson
(OSV News) ─ "We are not living an era of change," said Pope Francis in November 2015, "but a change of era."Since the late pontiff addressed his words to a national conference of the Italian Catholic Church almost a decade ago, the pace of that change has perceptibly accelerated, with rapid developments in artificial intelligence in the headlines seemingly continuous and even dizzying. An awareness of that reality could elicit many responses, including anxiety and indecision.
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5 days ago | 
detroitcatholic.com | Charles Fox |Greg Erlandson
VATICAN CITY (CNS) ─ Pope Leo XIV asked the bishops of France to work more diligently to ensure that the Catholic faith continues to be alive and can thrive in their nation "despite the contrary and sometimes hostile winds of indifference, materialism and individualism." In a letter marking the 100th anniversary of the canonization of three French saints -- John Eudes, John Vianney and Thérèse of Lisieux -- Pope Leo prayed that the anniversary celebrations "will not merely evoke nostalgia for...
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detroitcatholic.com | Charles Fox |Greg Erlandson
Archbishop Edward J. Weisenburger announces the following appointments:Fr. Manuel Fernandes, SAC, with the concurrence of his superior, Very Reverend Roque Gonsalves, SAC, appointed Full-Time Priest Support to the In Solidumteam of priests who pastor Our Lady of Loretto Parish, Redford; St. Genevieve-St. Maurice Parish, Livonia; St. John XXIII Parish, Redford; and St. Valentine Parish, Redford, which form the Mother of Divine Love Family of Parishes, effective September 1, 2025.
