Gen Z students swap ‘pints for pews’ visiting 40 churches and counting — By: Catholic News Agency

Just over a year ago in County Wicklow, Ireland, three young men decided to sidestep the secular Christmas season tradition of hitting 12 pubs and instead visited 12 different churches for Sunday Mass. Forty churches later, Luke Doogue, 20, and his friends Neil, 19, and Stephen Patterson, 17, have found themselves explaining on Irish national…

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Gen Z students swap ‘pints for pews’ visiting 40 churches and counting — By: Catholic News Agency

Just over a year ago in County Wicklow, Ireland, three young men decided to sidestep the secular Christmas season tradition of hitting 12 pubs and instead visited 12 different churches for Sunday Mass. Forty churches later, Luke Doogue, 20, and his friends Neil, 19, and Stephen Patterson, 17, have found themselves explaining on Irish national…

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Sisters part ways with Benedictine College due to aging community, increased demands — By: Catholic News Agency

Here’s a roundup of the latest Catholic education news in the United States: Sisters part ways with Benedictine due to aging community, demanding board, expansion efforts The announcement of the decision by Mount St. Scholastica sisters to part ways with Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, came as no surprise to leadership at the institution, as…

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‘Bernadette, The Musical’ brings inspiring story of Marian visionary to the U.S. — By: Catholic News Agency

After being seen by over 400,000 people across Europe, “Bernadette, The Musical” is making its debut in the U.S. on Feb. 19 at Chicago’s The Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture. The musical tells the true story of St. Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes — the 14-year-old girl who, in 1858 in Lourdes, France, encountered a…

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