General Interest St. Ferdinand 175th Anniversary Mass and luncheon, 9:30 a.m., June 14, St. Ferdinand, Ferdinand; celebrant is Bishop Charles C. Thompson; following Mass a luncheon of fried chicken, roast beef, mashed potatoes, green beans, dressing, sweet and sour slaw, rolls, beverage, des...
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  Members of the Knights of St. John Council 345 in Haubstadt honor Father Kenneth Betz, center, as he celebrates his golden jubilee of ordination to the priesthood. He is the administrator at St. James Parish in Haubstadt....
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  Congregations Acting for Justice and Empowerment hosted its annual Justice Ministry Celebration on June 8 at Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Evansville.  CAJE is a group of 18 local Christian congregations (including several Catholic parishes) that focuses on social justice issues...
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  Catholics in Ferdinand participated in a Corpus Christi procession on June 7. In Ferdinand, the processioners used a route around the Dubois County town that dates back to processions held in the 1850s....
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  Catholics in Evansville participate in a June 7 Corpus Christi Procession. The procession began at Annunciation Parish’s Christ the King Church and ended at St. Benedict Cathedral....
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  Each year nearly 17,000 young adults apply to attend the United States Naval Academy; yet only 1,200 ultimately are accepted, making the academy, in Annapolis, Md., one of the toughest schools for admission. Over the years, several southern Indiana residents have accepted the challenge, and...
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  They are coming back! “I still receive comments about the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance on Handel’s Messiah here at St. Joe’s last December,” writes Father Ray Brenner, pastor at St. Joseph Parish in Jasper. “You can mark your calendar fo...
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  General Interest New Mass Times at Good Shepherd and St. Theresa, Evansville, beginning the weekend of June 6-7, new Mass times for the linked parishes of Good Shepherd and St. Theresa will be:  Good Shepherd, 4:30 p.m., Sat., 7 and 10:30 a.m., Sunday; St. Theresa, 9 a.m., Sunday.  ...
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  Father Tony Ernst, pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Haubstadt, provided the headline for this story as he addressed a standing-room-only crowd May 30 in the sanctuary. He was referring to the ordination of parish son Tyler Tenbarge as a transitional deacon. Father Ernst noted that the...
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  Resurrection eighth graders recently took their class trip to Camp Ondessonk in southern Illinois. “The students had an incredible opportunity to camp for two days, hike through some incredible scenery, and experience the high and low ropes courses,” said Theresa Berendes, princi...
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