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The newly confirmed Catholics would receive a strengthening of gifts from the Holy Spirit and the Church would receive a new crop of members fully initiated into the Body of Christ.

Holy Cross Father Tom Doyle grew up in a small town in Washington, the son of a country doctor and nurse in a family where priests were often welcome guests.

Tom Egan, who became president and CEO of Foundation for Senior Living in January, is on a mission: to do a better job of reaching out to people in the pews on Sunday and letting them know about its array of services.

"whoever serves the community with courage and self-sacrifice encounters, along with the difficulties and the risks connected to one's role, a high level of self-fulfillment because he or she walks on the same road as our Lord," Pope Francis told Italian state police and family of the fallen.

The effort to pass on the teachings of the Catholic Church is supported each year through generous donations to the Charity and Development Appeal.

Una prueba de la Iglesia Católica universal se pudo escuchar a través de las 16 lenguas que compartieron oraciones, lecturas y canciones durante la Misa de Diversidad Cultural diocesana.

Members of the Missionaries of Charity had to spend more than two hours waiting at police headquarters for clearance before they could deliver food, blankets and other promised relief to earthquake victims in a remote mountainous area of Nepal.

"It's time for fathers and mothers to come out of their exile — because they have exiled themselves from their children's education — and to fully assume again their educational role," Pope Francis said.

No two souls are called to serve God in the exact same way. This was illustrated at the first “FIAT Discernment Morning for Women” held May 2 at the Diocesan Pastoral Center in Phoenix.

Benedictine University at Mesa’s 12 graduating students, comprising its first graduating class, received diplomas May 16.