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Body and Blood of Christ June 11
June 2023
Official Newspaper of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona-Rochester, MN | dowr.org
Congrats, Grads!
MANKATO - On Wednesday, April 26, graduating seniors from the five Catholic high schools located within the Diocese of Winona-Rochester - Loyola in Mankato, Pacelli in Austin, Lourdes in Rochester, Cotter in Winona and St. Jose Sanchez Del Rio Minor Seminary in Mankato - met at Loyola Catholic School for a Baccalaureate Mass celebrated by Bishop Robert Barron, and concelebrated by priests from their school communities. The Mass was held in the Chapel of Our Lady of
Good Counsel, which was owned by the School Sisters of Notre Dame until it was sold earlier this year. The SSND announced in March of 2022 that most Sisters living at Good Counsel would be moving to Benedictine Living Community in Shakopee. Celebrated on the Feast of Our Lady of Good Counsel, with music and readings provided by students, the Baccalaureate Mass was an event that fit the history of the School Sisters in Mankato.
Read statements from our graduates on pg. 6-7!
It's Unfair, Humiliating if Only the Rich Can Build a Family, Pope Says By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
ROME (CNS) - Starting a family and having children has become a kind of herculean task when instead it should be valued and supported by everyone, Pope Francis said at a meeting in Rome on Italy's severe decline in population growth. Today's culture "is unfriendly, if not hostile, to the family, centered as it is on the needs of the individual, where individual rights are continually claimed and the rights of the family are not discussed," the pope said at the meeting May 12. Women face "almost insurmountable constraints," he said, especially as they are often forced to choose between having a career and being a mother or caring for family members who are frail or need special care. "Women are slaves to this norm of selective employment, which also hinders them from motherhood," he said. The conference is an annual event that focuses on the general state of Italy's birthrate and demographics and seeks to bring all sectors of society together to pursue concrete ways to reverse the country's declining birthrate. Sponsored by the Foundation for Natality and the Italian Forum of Family Associations, the conference was being held May 11-12 at a Rome auditorium not far from St. Peter's Square.
Family, cont'd on pg. 2
INSIDE this issue
Listen, Befriend, Proclaim and Invite! page 4
From Our Graduates
Happy Anniversaries! pages 6-7
pages 10-11