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How can the needs of parishes be met as the number of priests declines? Meeting over the past several months, groups based in each of the Diocese of Helena’s six deaneries have been working on responses to that challenge.
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Judy Cooney’s home in Missoula has just a small yard and trees shade what little garden space there is, so she grows vegetables and berries in the community gardens at Blessed Trinity Parish.
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Donations totaling $1,500 and placed in baby bottles will benefit New Hope Pregnancy Clinic in Butte. The Anaconda Catholic Community Parish Nurses’ ministry and the Pro-Life Committee sponsored a fundraiser for the clinic, which encourages women to choose life when facing unplanned pregnancy...
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I had relegated shepherds to the unicorn file, somewhere near the hunchbacked blacksmith and the whistling milk man. They were the stuff of Mother Goose lore. So it was surprising to discover actual shepherds when I visited the Holy Land.
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In the Diocese of Helena, Catholic Home Missions Appeal money supports parish subsidies for salaries and benefits, travel expenses and utility costs in six underfunded, rural parishes.
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“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.” William Penn
That, in a nutshell, is what Catholic Social Justice is all about.
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The parish applied for a grant, through the foundation, to cover some of the expenses associated with renovation of the rectory. The renovation includes improving access to a restroom and a gathering space on the main level...
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Thirteen-thousand people a day, 60 bands, four nights of camping, fire pinwheels, worship and conversations about God.
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When Michael Moore of Anaconda bought 36 raffle tickets, one for each month he had been married, he did so on his third wedding anniversary and with thoughts of a nice honeymoon for his wife, Lonette. He had been to Mass at St. Peter Church ... and heard that a trip to Hawaii would be raffled as benefit for Catholic Social Services of Montana...
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Van Hengel founded St. Mary's Food Bank in Phoenix with a truckload of produce gleaned from Arizona farm fields and citrus groves. As word spread, groups all over the country started food banks. Organized gleaning and food recovery in the United States began with one Catholic man living his faith...
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Bishop George Leo Thomas again celebrated the outdoor Mass that takes place as part of the Blackfeet Tribe’s annual North American Indian Days, but this year the outdoor Mass was indoors at Browning’s Little Flower Parish because of a storm...
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Father Ed Hislop, the pastor at Blessed Trinity Parish in Missoula and Spirit of Christ Mission in Lolo, is the 2010 recipient of the Outstanding Pastor award conferred by the National Association of Pastoral Musicians.
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The Program of Formation for Lay Ministers will begin in mid-September at St. Ann Parish in Butte. And Formation Services Director John Fencik wants people to know that applications are still being accepted.
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In September 2008, two men met at the National Conference on Catholic Youth Ministry in Cleveland, Ohio. And this fall, the Diocese of Helena will reap the benefits of that meeting and subsequent collaboration. Diocesan Youth Minister Doug Tooke said the collaboration between his office and Reach Youth Ministry will bring an exciting, financially sustainable expansion of young adult ministry in the diocese.
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A pro-life walk from coast to coast took participants through Montana this summer and included a stop in Harlowton, where the walkers met with Father Jeff Benusa of St. Joseph Parish...
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Good Samaritan Ministries, which reaches out to people in need as it works to advance Catholic social-justice teaching in the Helena area, provided $171,600 in assistance during the fiscal year that ended June 30, executive director Theresa Ortega said.
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Six people from Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest will work in the Missoula area during the coming year, helping organizations that serve people who are homeless, mentally ill or in transition after suffering domestic violence.
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Diocese of Helena grants totaling $65,000 will be disbursed in the coming year to help parishes and other diocesan communities of faith reach out to youth and young adults. The money is available through an endowment established as part of the from Age to Age capital campaign.
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Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth officers beginning new, six-year terms include sisters who have served in Montana or have family ties here. The officers are in Leavenworth, Kan.
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Sister Charlotte Ann Esch, who taught in Montana, California, Nebraska and Hawaii, will celebrate 75 years of religious life next month. Two Sinsinawa Dominican sisters with Anaconda ties also celebrated jubilees this summer in Wisconsin...
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St. Patrick Cemetery in Butte needs water and representatives of the Diocese of Helena, Butte-Silver Bow Water Co. and the Butte division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians met recently to discuss prospects for providing it.
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Carmelite monks known widely for their gourmet coffee sold under the “Mystic Monk” label are brewing plans for construction of a monastery, with Gothic architecture, on a ranch near the northern Wyoming town of Meeteetse.
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Four children received First Communion at St. Bartholomew Parish in White Sulphur Springs on May 16...
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Scan the list of recent visitors to the diocesan mission in Guatemala and you will find eye surgeons, a dentist, a nuclear engineer and Carroll College students, among others. They have restored sight in blind villagers, worked on teeth never brushed, improved primitive plumbing and studied how to upgrade water for the mission school that enrolls about 600 children...
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As he speaks about “my students,” a touch of near-fatherly pride infuses Alex Woelkers’ voice. The 23-year-old Carroll College graduate returned this June from his year of service at the diocese’s Guatemala Mission. He taught English at the mission school and was the “house father” for the boys and young men in the dormitory.
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Diocesan parishes’ special collections to aid recovery from storm damage in Guatemala total $35,175. As a group, parishes in the Kalispell Deanery collected the largest sum: $12,173. By parish, the largest amount of money came from Kalispell’s St. Matthew, which collected $6,538...
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Selected video, book and internet recommendations from Kathy Ward, Manager of the Diocesan Resource Center, published monthly in The Montana Catholic newspaper...
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This month: new associate pastor at St.Francis Xavier Parish; Superintendent Patrick Haggarty accepts additional position; Butte Central girls' basketball team places third in Las Vegas tournament
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Upcoming and ongoing events in and around the Diocese of Helena...
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