A year after losing wife, David Cupp says ‘Diana would be proud’ Monroe — Though David Cupp had not “practiced much of anything for years,” he admits that he has “always believed in a man above.” Today he is a candidate in the Rite of Christian Initiation (RCIA) program at St. John the Baptist Parish…
Conversions
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‘The most personal act’
by Elizabeth Wong Barnstead •
More than 1,000 to join Church this Easter Detroit — In fourth grade Nicole Scheier’s best friend, Ashley, introduced her to the concept of Jesus and the Catholic Church. Scheier, who was Jewish, was intrigued and also “scared of what my friends and family would think … but I felt this pull to Jesus and…
Conversions, Local News, Marriage, Family & Pro-Life
Have courage: Catholics with same-sex attraction find love, support in Church’s ministry
by Elizabeth Wong Barnstead •
Metro Detroit — For many people, the word most closely associated with the Catholic Church in terms of homosexuality is the word “no.” But Fr. Paul Check, executive director of Courage International, says this “no” is embedded in “a much more compelling ‘yes’ to individual people with same-sex attraction.” “The desire of the heart for…
Conversions, Local News, Marriage, Family & Pro-Life
Healing finds woman 40 years after abortion
by Guest Writer •
The following is the last in a series of three articles highlighting the journey of hope, healing and forgiveness three women found through Rachel’s Vineyard, a ministry of Priests for Life that provides weekend post-abortion healing retreats nationally and in the Archdiocese of Detroit, and Silent No More, a campaign to raise awareness about the…
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Church’s ‘ancientness’ drew Protestant to Catholicism
by Guest Writer •
Nicholas Pizana | The Michigan Catholic DETROIT — For Detroiter Tim Gelletly, conversion was the power of the Holy Spirit at work in his life, and his conversion spread to other members of his family as well. “I was raised in a Christian home, but you could classify it as an evangelical household. My mother…
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Candidates, catechumens pledge intent to join Church
by The Michigan Catholic •
DETROIT — Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron said being joined to the Catholic Church is much like a “betrothal,” and urged those coming into full communion this Easter to cast off sin and death through their upcoming marriage to Jesus. “To belong to the New Covenant is to be married to Christ,” the archbishop told some…
