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September 20
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (CNS) -- Ron Clements is a renowned animator, screenwriter and producer-director of award-winning Disney films, including the 2017 blockbuster "Moana." But at heart, he will always be a Midwesterner and grateful for his Catholic education, he told students at his alma mater. -
September 13
On Sept. 23, 2017, Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, celebrated the Rite of Beatification for Blessed Stanley Rother during a Beatification Mass in downtown Oklahoma City. Blessed Stanley Rother is the first martyr for the United States and the first U.S.-born priest to be beatified. -
September 13
In Saint Ann Retirement Center’s grand theater, a crowd of more than 75 gathered on Aug. 13 to hear the story of a modern miracle. Father Marvin Leven, an Oklahoma retired priest, and Sandra Rother McGougan, related the 1992 story of Father Stanley Rother’s healing intercession. McGougan said on that July 3, she was stricken by a mysterious brain ailment; her mother, Kay Rother, received a call that Sandra had suddenly fallen ill and was taken to a nearby hospital. -
September 13Luke 5:1-11 I have to be honest, over the years I haven’t paid much attention to this passage from Luke’s gospel other than the apostles caught a lot of fish (so much so that their nets were tearing), but only after Jesus instructed them to try again after they worked all night and caught nothing.
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September 13In a 2002 apostolic visit to Toronto, Saint John Paul II addressed the crowd by saying: “Dear young people, let yourselves be taken over by the light of Christ, and spread that light wherever you are.”
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