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ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, St. ANTHONY, AND OUR LADY OF GRACE

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There are plenty of great things happening within our community all year long. Please keep track of them by listening to church announcements, checking our calendar, and reading our weekly bulletin.

You can also stay updated about Catholic news by watching or reading the media below.
National Catholic Register
- Pope Francis: Whatever Happens, ‘Hope Does Not Disappoint!’
  
  By Hannah Brockhaus/CNA | CAMERINO - Hope, which is more than mere optimism, gives one a deep-rooted confidence in the love and care of God, no matter what has happened, Pope Francis said...
- Mattie Stepanek — Child Poet and Peacemaker
  
  By Kathy Schiffer | Mattie Stepanek accrued some mighty endorsements in his short life. The child poet and peace advocate suffered from a rare neuromuscular condition, dysautonomic mytochondrial...
- “We Are Greatly Blessed” For the Gift of Fatherhood
  
  By JD Flynn | Each November, for more than a decade, my father coordinated the annual “Scouting for Food” program in the small town where I grew up. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts would drop off empty...
- 12 Things to Know and Share About the Holy Trinity
  
  By Jimmy Akin | This article originally appeared May 26, 2013, at the Register. The Church teaches that the Holy Trinity is the central mystery of the Christian Faith. But how much do you know...
- Like the Apple of His Eye: Celebrating God’s Fatherhood This Father’s Day
  
  By Marge Fenelon | In 1908, a West Virginia church held an event to honor the 362 men who had died the previous December in an explosion at the Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah. That became...
Catholic News Service
News from the Vatican
- Married priests officially on the agenda during Amazon synod
  
  When the bishops from the Amazon region gather in Rome next October, they will discuss the ordination of “elderly people,” preferably indigenous, to guarantee that the remote communities in the...
- Pope Francis urges diplomacy in new Gulf crisis and strength in repairing Italian city
  
  Pope Francis says Angelus in Italian city still recovering from earthquakes.
- More charges of inappropriate touching aimed at Vatican envoy to France
  
  Two more people claim to have been groped or sexually harassed by the papal envoy to France, Archbishop Luigi Ventura, who is already under fire for three similar charges.
- Diplomatic notes: Concert marks anniversary of Israel-Vatican ties
  
  Plaintive pleas and rousing, rhythmic recognitions of God's goodness filled the air at Rome's main synagogue as Israeli and Vatican officials celebrated 25 years of formal diplomatic relations.
- Pope to oil execs: We don’t ‘have the luxury’ to wait to fight climate change
  
  Speaking to oil company executives, Pope Francis on Friday said that climate change “threatens the very future” of humanity, adding that the “doomsday predictions” can no longer be met with disdain.
Rome Reports