Robert Delaney retires after 22 years with newspaper Detroit — What Robert Delaney will remember most from his days as a Michigan Catholic reporter, he says, are the hundreds and hundreds of “wonderful people” he met along the way. And that doesn’t surprise his current and former colleagues. Delaney doesn’t forget much. Whether it’s the…
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Local News
Ira Township parishioner recovers stolen church bell
by Mike Stechschulte •
ALGONAC — If he hadn’t intercepted a historic 900-pound church bell stolen last week from in front of Sweetest Heart of Mary Church in Detroit, Bill Smith Sr. said it would have been shipped to Canada and have been “long gone,” never to be seen again. Smith, a business owner in Algonac who restores marine…
Local News, Vocations
Jesus leads, three new priests follow
by Robert Delaney •
Archbishop ordains, welcomes Frs. Grau, Gonyeau, Djonovic Detroit — Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron ordained three new priests for the Archdiocese of Detroit on May 18 before a congregation filled with friends, family and well-wishers at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Many priests and prelates were also among the nearly 1,000 people in attendance…
Catholic Schools
Notre Dame alum passionate about leading, helping others
by Don Horkey •
PONTIAC – The question was: what makes Carly Joseph tick? It came near the end of an interview with this 17-year-old alumna — as of a couple of weeks ago — of Pontiac Notre Dame Prep, going over her high school career, her extracurricular activities, her outside school interests. She expressed herself easily, yet a…
Obituaries and Death Notices
Sr. Teresa Margaret Turnwald, OCD
by The Michigan Catholic •
Sr. Teresa Margaret Turnwald died peacefully at the Monastery of St. Therese on May 15 at the age of 97, after 78 years of religious life. Sister was born Louise Gertrude Turnwald, daughter of John and Elizabeth Andres Turnwald, in Maple Grove, a rural community north of Flint. As a child of five, when asked…
Obituaries and Death Notices
Sr. Mary Virginia Gola, CSSF
by The Michigan Catholic •
Sr. Gola Sr. Mary Virginia (Helen) Gola, CSSF, of Detroit, age 82, religious 64 years, entered eternal life May 15 in St. Joseph Care Center, Livonia. Helen Gola was born Feb. 20, 1931, to Louis and Agatha (Stawasz), the second of 10 children. Baptized at Corpus Christi Church in Detroit, she attended the parish grade…
