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Dallas priest named bishop of Shreveport
By CET
WASHINGTON
– Msgr. Michael G. Duca, rector of Holy Trinity Seminary in Irving, has
been named second bishop of Shreveport, La., by Pope Benedict XVI.
The appointment was announced April 1 in Washington, D.C., by Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States.
Bishop-elect Duca’s appointment comes just one month away from his 30th
anniversary of ordination to the priesthood in Dallas on April 29,
1978. He has served as the Rector of Holy Trinity Seminary in Dallas
since 1996.
He has also served on numerous boards and commissions in the Diocese of
Dallas including: the College of Consultors, Presbyteral Council,
Personnel Board, the Commission for Orders and on the diocesan
tribunal, presently as a judge and as associate judicial vicar. He is
currently director of the Office for the Ongoing Formation of Priests.
He is also a Fourth Degree Knight of Columbus and a Knight of the Holy
Sepulcher.
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Survey: Pope will find spiritual nation in U.S.
By CNS
WASHINGTON
(CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI will find a spiritual nation when he visits
the United States in April, according to a new national survey
commissioned by the Knights of Columbus.
The survey, conducted
by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion in Poughkeepsie,
N.Y., found that “Americans are interested in hearing how God, religion
and spirituality may be incorporated into their daily lives.”
The results were released by Supreme Knight Carl Anderson March 25 at the National Press Club in Washington. His new book, A Civilization of Love: What Every Catholic Can Do to Transform the World, published by HarperOne, debuted the same day.
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a ratio of more than 4-to-1, the survey said, Americans have a
favorable opinion of Pope Benedict; 58 percent of those surveyed said
they view him favorably, compared with 13 percent who have an
unfavorable opinion. Seventeen percent said they have never heard of
him.
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Two young women make commitment to religious life
LOS
ANGELES – Two women from the Diocese of Tyler made commitments to the
consecrated life March 23 at Resurrection Church in Los Angeles.
Sister
Therese Marie of Divine Mercy, EFMS, took vows of poverty, chastity and
obedience in the Congregation of the Eucharistic Franciscan Missionary
Sisters of Los Angeles before general superior Mother Rose Seraphim,
EFMS, and Sister Concepcion Fernandez, who will henceforth be known as
Sister
Cecilia de la Inmaculada, EFMS, received her habit as a novice during a
hair-cutting ritual.
Sister
Ceclia participated in a 10-month vocation discernment program in the
Diocese of Tyler before dedicating her life to Christ. The program,
founded by Franciscan Eucharistic Missionary Sisters, or Eufemias, in
the diocese and led by women religious of various orders, seeks to
introduce young women to religious life and the charisms of different
orders at work in the diocese, including the Eufamias, the Marianitas,
the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth and others.
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PROFILE: Our family instilled faith in us; we knew there was only one God and we had to depend on him – that was our way of life
By JIM D'AVIGNON
OVERTON – At 86, Bea Lyssy has known hard times, but mostly her memories are happy ones.
And, she
cheerfully says, this has nothing to do with the amount of memory loss
she suffered during a moderate stroke four years ago.
“We
didn’t have much,” she said; “but we understood that. I remember asking
for a nickel one time and my parents couldn’t give me one because we
didn’t have it. But that didn’t bother us. We grew up knowing we didn’t
get everything.”
Born in
Kosciusko, about 40 miles southeast of San Antonio, Bea (“if you call
me Beatrice, I’ll look around to see who that is”) was the
self-perceived middle child of eight children born to Felix and
Margaret Richter Kotara. “I had a sister and two brothers older than
me, then I came and I had two brothers and a sister younger. Then much
later, when Momma was about 45, another little girl came along,” Bea
said.
“There
wasn’t much to the town,” she said. “There was our Catholic church and
a Catholic school and a little store, and that was about it.” Then, as
now, the town was very small, supporting farmers on surrounding
holdings. Some had houses in the town, but most lived on their farms.
The
community, Bea said, was very homogeneous. “We were all Polish, and we
were all farmers and we were all Catholic. I thought everybody in the
world was Catholic,” she said. “I didn’t know anybody outside of
Catholic people.”
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St. Gregory Fun Run kicks off in Tyler
By CET
TYLER – The 23rd annual St. Gregory Fun Run will be held April 5 on the Bishop T.K. Gorman Catholic Schools campus.
The annual event benefits St. Gregory Catholic Elementary and the Bishop T.K. Gorman Catholic Schools.
Registration begins at 7 a.m., followed by the 5K at 8 a.m., which will
start in front of Haddad Gym and take runners through surrounding
neighborhoods before finishing on the Gorman track. The 1-mile will
begin at 9 a.m. on Easy Street in front of the track. The Kids’ Dash,
open to children 7 and younger, also will begin at 9 a.m., taking the
youngsters on a single lap around the track.
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