Tag: Catholic
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Fr. McGivney, My Father, & Me
I. The vision of one man can have a tremendous impact on the world. Yesterday, we celebrated the birthday of Fr. Michael J. McGivney, a Irish-American priest who founded the Knights of Columbus in 1882 with a small group of parishioners in his Connecticut parish. The idea was to band men together with the mission of…
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Grateful for the Community of Faith
I spent five years in Alaska as a missionary prior to becoming Catholic. Four years of that was in a little town south of Anchorage with a strong bohemian population. As the town pastor, I got to know many of those good people. More than a few were devotees of The Grateful Dead, a band…
Tracy Earl Welliver 