For 12 years, Divine Child High School in Dearborn has offered academic support for students with learning differences to help tackle the challenges of a Catholic school curriculum.

The Instructional Support Program provides students with different learning needs with personalized in-class interventions, individualized accommodation while… Read more

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Divine Child completes first year of program for students with special needs - Detroit Catholic

Good Shepherd Options Program aims to make a well-rounded Catholic education accessible to more students and their families

In 1985, Fr. Bob Bedard, a priest in Ottawa, Ontario, along with three seminarians of the Diocese of Ottawa who had formed a “share group” of support and prayer, felt God’s call to establish a new kind of religious community — one that would work to renew parishes and enliven the Catholic Church with the good news of Jesus Christ. They would… Read more

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With their friends in Detroit, Companions of the Cross celebrate 40 years of faith - Detroit Catholic

Society of apostolic life founded in Canada in 1985 arrived in the Archdiocese of Detroit in 2011 with a call to evangelize

Fr. Joe Barron, PES, grew up in the Midwest, was sent to Peru as a missionary and now serves at St. Isaac Jogues Parish in St. Clair Shores.

So when the Pro Ecclesia Sancta priest found out Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, the Chicago-born Augustinian missionary who was previously bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, had been elected as Pope Leo XIV, he saw… Read more

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Peruvian past will impact Pope Leo's papacy, Detroit-area missionaries say - Detroit Catholic

‘The Holy Spirit is calling us to evangelize,’ says St. Clair Shores priest who served in Peru in reaction to Pope Leo’s election

Pope Leo XIV formally began his ministry as pope on May 18, during a Mass that marked the public inauguration of his service as bishop of Rome and successor of St. Peter.

In 2023, a small group of women started meeting monthly for breakfast in Ann Arbor. They shared a common bond of Christian values, and another connection: they each had lost their husband.

They dreamed together about what they could do to help other women whose lives had been turned upside down by the loss of a spouse. As they comforted… Read more

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Widows Might: New group for widows of all ages provides much-needed support - Detroit Catholic

A small group of women who had lost their husbands took a leap of faith in 2019; today, they have their sights set on changing lives

On a late summer day in 1981, the future pope of the Catholic Church was on his way to Detroit, deep in prayer.

When he arrived, the young Robert Prevost would kneel before the altar at St. Clare of Montefalco Parish in Grosse Pointe Park, where his life of ordained ministry — a ministry that would lead him from Chicago to Peru and eventually… Read more

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Another Detroit tie: Pope Leo XIV was ordained a deacon in Grosse Pointe Park - Detroit Catholic

St. Clare of Montefalco parishioners say it's a point of holy pride that Chicago-born pope visited, was ordained at their parish

In May 1917, Our Lady began to appear in the small village of Fatima, Portugal, to three shepherd children: Lucia dos Santos, age 10, and her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, ages 9 and 7. Delivering the powerful messages of world peace and reparation for sinners to these humble, young children was no accident, and Our Lady’s choice to… Read more

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A jubilee pilgrimage of hope through Our Lady of Fatima Shrine - Detroit Catholic

The humble Riverview shrine helps continue to spread the powerful message of Fatima in southeast Michigan, volunteers say