05-02-25 print edition of The Catholic Missourian
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In this issue
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Jubilee pilgrims with Chicago bishop visit places of Fr. Tolton’s Baptism, burial
Wednesday, April 30
CLICK HERE to see a gallery of photos from this event. Behind bishop, priests, candles and crucifix, the people processed to a shady corner of St. Peter Cemetery in Brush Creek. Bishop …
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Communities band together to clean up after tornado
Wednesday, April 30
CLICK HERE to see a gallery of photos from this event. Teams of neighbors with five-gallon buckets combed the fields in the morning sun, binding up wounds in the landscape and sowing gratitude. …
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New Catholic’s Holy Week ritual was a sign of sacrifice, unity
Wednesday, April 30
Dr. Randy Miller DVM has stood at many crossroads along the road to closer communion with Christ. None was ever quite like this. Each morning of Holy Week this year, he and an …
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Future deacons reflect on hope as they move toward ordination
Wednesday, April 30
Archbishop McKnight has summoned 14 men to the diaconate — 13 of them for the permanent diaconate and one seminarian for the transitional diaconate. He plans to ordain them during Mass on …
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St. Jude Thaddeus Parish’s new crucifix blessed at Easter
Wednesday, April 30
The newest and likely most memorable addition to St. Jude Thaddeus Church in Mokane has ties to artwork that’s been there for over a century. Father Alexander Gabriel blessed the large …
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Making the mission: The vital role of volunteers
Wednesday, April 30
A natural part of human development is the innate desire to seek purpose — to find meaning in life. For Catholics, the search for individual fulfillment is influenced by the universality …
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Kirksville, Novinger women attend Welcome Retreat
Wednesday, April 30
The women of Mary Immaculate Parish in Kirksville and the Mission of St. Rose of Lima in Novinger hosted a Welcome Retreat March 29-30, at the Newman Center in Kirksville. It was an incredible …
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PHOTOS: Holy Week/Jubilee Year of Hope pilgrimage to Venerable Fr. Tolton sites
Wednesday, April 30
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PHOTOS: Diocesan Memorial Mass for Pope Francis
Wednesday, April 30
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PHOTOS: Community clean-up day after tornado
Wednesday, April 30
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SAUCIER — Here and hereafter
Wednesday, April 30
Meandering through the museum, we found funerary art from ancient Egypt. The wealthy deceased were mummified and often placed in a richly adorned wooden coffin. A stone sarcophagus would further …
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Pope Francis laid to rest after eventful papacy
Monday, April 28
CLICK HERE to read a related story. Archbishop Shawn McKnight thought back to how Pope Francis, when first introduced to the world, asked people in St. Peter’s Square to give him a …
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Bishop-Emeritus Gaydos: Pope Francis did what God sent him to do
Monday, April 28
CLICK HERE to read a related story. When the former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio rose to the papacy, Bishop Emeritus John R. Gaydos immediately saw the significance of the name the new pope had …
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Archbishop McKnight: Easter is fullest expression of hope’s light in the darkness
Saturday, April 19
The light of hope kept getting brighter as it spread through the darkened Cathedral. Much like how life once returned to the tomb near a hill called Golgotha, altering all of human history. …
