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Individual Who Attended Mass at a Blair County Parish Tests Positive...

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An individual who attended Mass recently at a Blair County parish has tested positive for COVID-19. The person attended the 11:00 a.m. Mass on November...

The Reality of Purgatory

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By Father Rich Tomkosky Earlier this week, we remembered our departed loved ones on All Souls Day. In the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which...

The Spiritual Difference Between the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

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By Father Rich Tomkosky Without the honest acknowledgement of our struggle with pride, sinfulness of various sorts, and our need for God, we are not...

SCHOOLS

Father Paul Taylor, OSB, Named 18th President of Saint Vincent College

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Father Paul R. Taylor, O.S.B., Ph.D., a Benedictine monk and executive vice president, has been named the 18th president of Saint Vincent College, effective...

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Proclaim! TV

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Watch Proclaim! every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. on WATM ABC 23 followed by the live broadcast of the Sunday Mass from Saint John Gualbert...

COMMENTARY

The Gift and the Sacred Responsibility of the Ordained Priesthood

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By Father Rich Tomkosky What a gift and a responsibility it is to be a spiritual shepherd of God’s flock, and kind of scary in...

The Background and Meaning of Our Lady’s Miraculous Medal Apparition in 1830

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By Father Rich Tomkosky Adapted from the EWTN online library re: Saint Catherine Laboure (see www.ewtn.com). In the darkness of the night of July 18-19, 1830,...

Essential Spiritual Lessons from the Three Characters in the Prodigal Son Parable

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By Father Rich Tomkosky Each one of us is called every day to become a new creation in Christ. The season of Lent is a...

Jesus’ Resurrection Giving Us the Grace to Bear Spiritual Fruit in Holiness

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By Father Rich Tomkosky As we come together as a Church throughout the world to celebrate Jesus’ Resurrection, we are reminded by all the symbols...

Finding the Light in the Darkness

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Column by Jonathan Nagy “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.  Neither do people light a...

SPIRITUALITY

A Message of Hope: Turn to Mary, Undoer of Knots

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A Message by Bishop Mark Bartchak What can be more frustrating than having played baseball all afternoon in the rain with friends, and having hit...

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