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Keeping the Spirit of Christmas All Yearlong: Become an Ambassador of...
                A Message from Cindy O'Connor
The Christmas countdown has begun! Bright lights and shiny decorations are inside and out, bakers are making sweet treats, presents...            
            
        CATHOLIC LIVING
The Spiritual Difference Between the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
                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...            
            
        The One Who Knows Christ Knows Peace
                Column by Jonathan Nagy
A few days ago, I was cleaning when a shelf in my closet broke and I had a giant mess on...            
            
        SCHOOLS
COLLEGES
Father Paul Taylor, OSB, Named 18th President of Saint Vincent College
                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...            
            
        KEEPING THE FAITH
Proclaim! TV
                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 World Day of Prayer for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life
                    By Father Rich Tomkosky
What a gift it is to share in the mission of Jesus, the Shepherd of souls.
 Priests act in the person...                
            How Do We Bear Good Spiritual Fruit for God’s Kingdom?
                    By Father Rich Tomkosky
How can each one of us in our life become the seed, in the good soil, in which God’s Word bears...                
            Advent: Getting Spiritually Prepared for Jesus’s First and Second Coming
                    By Father Rich Tomkosky
Advent is a time of waiting, active waiting in anticipation, in hope for the coming of the Lord. For the first...                
            Turning to the Lord for Help Like the Blind Man in the Gospel
                    By Father Rich Tomkosky
This past Sunday's Gospel gives us a model of how we should turn to the Lord and ask for His help....                
            Reflecting on the End of Our Earthly Life
                    By Father Rich Tomkosky
We are in the last two weeks of the Liturgical year. The readings should cause us to reflect carefully on the...                
            SPIRITUALITY
Six Diocesan Priests Mark 60th Anniversary of Ordination
                By Tony DeGol
Proclaim!
Six priests of the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown are marking the 60th anniversary of their ordination this month.
Reverend Sylvester J. Bendzella, 86, is...            
            
        
                
		




































