 March 30, 2007
Expos showcase CSA-funded ministriesRobert Delaney
Sometimes even the volunteers who work to help the annual Catholic Services Appeal achieve its goal don't fully realize what all those CSA dollars make possible.
Safety pays: Catholic Safety Patrol students earn Tigers tickets for helping
Joe Kohn
You're safe! Sure it's a phrase from baseball, but it's also a message to young students from Catholic schools in the Detroit area as they're being dropped off at or picked up from school each day.
Decades of music: After almost 27 years, Norah Duncan IV leaves helmas music director of Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament
John Guinn
Here are some things you might not know about Norah Duncan IV, who resigned his position as music director of Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament last month following an almost 27-year tenure.
Catholics sought for work in Prison Fellowship
Robert Delaney
Michael Timmis says he is hoping to get more Catholics interested in the work of Prison Fellowship, the ministry to prison inmates, former prisoners and the families of prisoners founded by Charles Colson.
Pontiac Catholics bring Hispanic ministry to Lapeer prison
Kristin Lukowski
A group from Pontiac Catholic parishes who minister to Spanish speakers celebrated the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in December, at the Thumb Correctional Facility in Lapeer.
3,000 men join for worship, fellowship at conference
Joe Kohn
Looking out over a stadium of fellow Christian men, author and educator Ralph Martin wanted to make his point clear. "Jesus has so many enemies, and so few friends," he said for a second time in a row, "that it's really important that those few friends be good friends."
Parish network helps job-seekers discretely
Kristin Lukowski
It's not only the middle class and city dwellers who are being affected by recent downturns in the state's economy.
Joe Kohn
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was addressing an audience at Orchestra Hall during his State of the City speech last week, when he asked Detroit pastors to "stand up" and engage their neighbors to help stop violence.
Fr. Anton Kcira first began to notice the absence of more and more of his regular parishioners at St. Paul (Albanian) Church back in 2005, and the loss due to deportations has escalated since then.
Local dealer licensed for Vatican Library caskets, urns
Michelle Samartino
When someone dies, who's to say that person can't go out in something other than a traditional fashion? And we're not talking about clothing. Eternal Image of Farmington Hills makes a line of caskets and urns from the Vatican Library Collection, the first ever to be licensed by the Vatican Library.
Final decisions made for elementary school closures
The Michigan Catholic
St. Stanislaus Kostka School in Wyandotte, Our Lady of Loretto School in Redford Township and St. Cyprian School in Riverview will close at the end of the current school year.
150 join in anti-war protest in downtown Detroit
Robert Delaney
A number of local Catholics were among the upwards of 150 people who protested the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq Monday outside the Theodore Levin Federal Courthouse in downtown Detroit.
 March 16, 2007
St. Patrick, Irish heritage honoredMarylynn G. Hewitt, SFO
There was more than a wee bit of the luck of the Irish when it came to the weather for the annual Parade Mass and 49th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade Sunday.
Sorrows' Geography Day shines spotlight on worldJoe Kohn
Farmington While most often, a boy at a Catholic school might pull on slacks, dress socks and a white shirt to go to school, on March 8, fifth-grader Tyler Johnson opted for a kilt, Glengarry and a sporran.
Police, parish work to resolve missing fundsKristin Lukowski
Police and officials at St. Mary Magdalen Parish of Hazel Park are working together on an investigation into the embezzlement of thousands of dollars of parish funds by the parish's business manager.
Kids make art, while parents 'make St. Patrick's St. Patrick's'Joe Kohn
White Lake Twp. A class of fourth graders sits in rapt attention as instructors Trish MacDonell and Barb Flynn tell them about Chinese artist Wang Yani, a painter known best for her portrayal of moody monkeys. The kids then grab paint brushes, hunker down on the floor and try their best to express themselves as Yani did.
Follow-through needed for effective parish stewardshipRobert Delaney
Modern stewardship formation programs stress that Christian stewardship is not just about money, but about thoughtful stewardship of time, talent and treasure. But too often, parishes fail to follow-through on parishioners' commitments when it comes to volunteering their time and talents.
 March 9, 2007
Fasting: A way to heighten our hunger for God
Joe Kohn
Detroit For those who think of fasting as a way to simply make their tummies rumble, the prioress of the Cloistered Dominican Nuns of the Monastery of the Blessed Sacrament in Farmington Hills has a reminder.
Faith Formation Article: Faith formation calls us to change the face of the mountain
Sr. Janet Schaeffler, OP
Once upon a time, in a remote, unfriendly village that clung to the side of a mountain, there lived an old woman whose habits seemed strange to her neighbors. Since the harsh winters kept most villagers huddled near their fireplaces, they did not cultivate the art of hospitality, and rarely spoke to anyone outside their immediate families.
Lent offers culinary specialties:
All-you-can-eat fish dinners, and a 'drive-thru' tooRobert Delaney
Ira Township Those who want to eat inside Immaculate Conception School can enjoy all-you-can-eat dinners of either fish or macaroni and cheese. Those who want carryout orders need never leave their cars.
March 2, 2007
More than 1,300 to join Catholic Church at EasterRobert Delaney
Detroit More than 1,300 people who will enter into full participation as members of the Catholic Church on Easter Saturday took part in Rite of Election ceremonies at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament from last Saturday through Monday.
Lent is 'a sign of new hope and a promise of new life'Kristin Lukowski
Harrison Twp. Although we hear the reminder on Ash Wednesday that we come from dust and will return to dust, Cardinal Adam Maida said we should also see ashes in a positive light: "a sign of hope and a promise of new life."
Vatican expert on saints to speak in diocese March 10
Robert Delaney
Msgr. Robert Sarno, official of the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, will speak on "Holiness: The Way to Life" at The Path to Sanctity March 10. Msgr. Sarno, 59, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y., recently spoke by telephone from Rome with Michigan Catholic reporter Robert Delaney.
Joe Kohn
Detroit At least two Catholic grade schools plan to close at the end of the 2006-07 school year, and parents at a third school are fighting long odds to keep theirs open.
Men's conference to focus on renewal, affirmation, encouragementJoe Kohn
Put Out Into The Deep, the annual Catholic conference for men in the Archdiocese of Detroit, will take place March 24 at University of Detroit Mercy's Calihan Hall. The conference is organized by Paco Gavrilides, coordinator of evangelization for the Archdiocese of Detroit. Gavrilides spoke with Michigan Catholic reporter Joe Kohn about the 2007 conference and this year's theme, "Courageous Companions of Christ"
Wanted: 'Dangerous' young menJoe Kohn
Detroit It may be a new twist, but speaker Jim Beckman will be asking high-school aged men at the Put Out Into The Deep men's conference to be dangerous.
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