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https://d2y1pz2y630308.cloudfront.net/17761/slideshows/homeLarge/DSC_0090-Edit.jpg Bishop Rhoades visits St. Augustine Parish to celebrate the parish's 90th Anniversary.

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National Catholic Register
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Today's Readings
- Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
  
  Reading I Jb 38:1, 8-11
  Responsorial Psalm 107:23-24, 25-26, 28-29, 30-31
  Reading II 2 Cor 5:14-17
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  On the feast of St. Francis, Oct. 4, leaders of world religions or their representatives will meet at the Vatican and in Rome to draft a statement to government leaders who will gather in Scotland in...
Catholic News Service
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  WASHINGTON (CNS) — When Harold Thomas Jr., principal of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Academy in...
- Luca
  
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