Following are the winners of the Serra Club’s 2018 Vocation Awards. The Diocese of Evansville’s Catholic Center hosted a luncheon and awards ceremony for the honorees on Nov. 2. Elsewhere on this page is an excerpt of Father Tyler Tenbarge’s keynote from the luncheon. St James Par...
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The idea for this column first occurred a few months ago, and then popped into my mind again the other evening. Following my usual nightly routine, I picked up the book I had been reading, “Benedict’s Way,” and encountered this quote by John Wesley: “It cannot be that people...
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I attended a medical conference recently and was intrigued by a lecture on identity given by Patrick Vinay M.D., a French Canadian physician.  He outlined five ‘plans’ related to identity of the healthy, the sick, family members of the sick, healthcare providers and what our ultima...
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Happy Birthday! Deacon Thomas Holsworth of St. Mary Parish in Huntingburg celebrates his birthday on Nov. 24. Janie Kempf, Parish Catechetical Leader at Divine Mercy Parish in St. Anthony, celebrates her birthday on Nov. 24. Rhonda Weissmann, Administrative Assistant in the Diocese of Evansville Ca...
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Evansville Catholic Schools will operate on a 2-hour delay on Thursday. Offices at the Catholic Center and Catholic Charities will operate on normal business hours....
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Father Kenneth H. Herr, 77, died on Nov. 12, 2018, in Evansville. He was a retired priest of the Diocese of Evansville. Father Herr was born in Warrick County on Jan. 13, 1941, to the late Herbert and Leona (Welte) Herr. He attended St. Meinrad College in St. Meinrad and Collegium Canisianum S...
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“Truly beloved brethren: May charity and innocence abound with all. May prosperity and security dwell in our borders. May the happiness and contentment, the common zeal for the public good, and the universal, mutual good feeling which I have witnessed and shared with gladness of heart since I...
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Serra Club President John East called the group’s Nov. 2 Vocation Awards Luncheon at the Diocese of Evansville Catholic Center “our Super Bowl. “We work throughout the year on a number of different projects,” he explained, “but this is our Super Bowl. After this event,...
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Knights of Columbus from Dubois, Pike and Spencer counties honored their priests, deacons, women religious and seminarians to the Huntingburg Events Center on Oct. 30 for the 6th Annual Father Michael J. McGivney Vocations Dinner. A large crowd saluted the honorees with multiple ovations during the...
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More than 450 people visited St. John the Evangelist Parish in Daylight on Nov. 4 for the 10 a.m. Mass, which served as a celebration of the parish’s 150th anniversary. Bishop Joseph M. Siegel concelebrated the Mass with the parish’s two most recent pastors – current pastor Father...
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