We want to share a sincere THANK YOU to the 20 St. Francis parishioners who pitched in to clean, set up, stock and transform an apartment into a home for a refugee family coming from…
“ All saints point to Christ, but we focus on the saint. We aren’t supposed to live ‘Francis’ but are supposed to live Christ.” So stated Father Steve Kluge when he visited St. Francis recently…
After returning from a three-year move to St. Matthew’s in Charlotte, Kathryn Noblitt sought to return to her parish of St. Francis and ‘belong.’ At St. Matthew’s, she described how the most populous Catholic parish…
As we Catholics know, Lent is a 40-day prayer, fasting, and almsgiving season that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. The preparation to celebrate the Lord's Resurrection at Easter, during…
I wanted to share a story from when I volunteered recently at Ronald McDonald House.
There are many different groups that come and serve at Ronald McDonald House, and each group creates their own meal for…
Many in the Catholic Church are ‘cradle Catholics’, meaning their families are and have been Catholic and were raised ‘from the cradle’ in the Church. As a result, they usually receive the sacraments of Baptism,…
Many people who grew up in the Catholic Faith, especially those of a certain age, remember the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD) programs that were once widespread in parishes. The Confraternity of Christian Doctrine was…