“We both cried the first time. I’m getting choked up just thinking about it. When you are away from the Holy Eucharist, you come to appreciate it more and realize how much you really need it.
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On the night before He suffered and died on the cross, Jesus shared a last meal with His disciples...
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“The almost ruthless push to erase history flows contrary to what we need as human beings and as a society. To eradicate our history — the good, the bad, and the shameful aspects of it — is to make us orphans. Nothing in Sacred Scripture would ever support the forgetting or destruction of history.”
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A federal Coronavirus relief program helped parishes, schools and agencies in the Diocese of Allentown continue their important ministries for people in five counties during the height of the virus shutdown.
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Mass attendance is increasing steadily around the Diocese as people become more comfortable with returning to church in-person.
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We as a nation must not be overly ashamed of our past, no matter how dark and bleak certain aspects of it may be. Instead we must integrate all of our history, both the glorious and the scandalous, into an impetus for national improvement.
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“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another …”
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Bishop Alfred Schlert was among a handful of faith leaders asked to address the recent annual meeting of the Lehigh Conference of Churches, an interfaith organization that provides social services in the Allentown area.
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Catholic Charities has been asked by Carbon County officials to administer a new rent-relief...
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More people will be able to experience the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist when the attendance limit for Mass increases to 50 percent of the church’s capacity starting June 29.
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