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Dio Wheeling-Charleston 2 months agoCELEBRATING OUR 175TH
“Brutal Honesty”
While Catholic populations grew, clergy in western Virginia had a nearly impossible task. Priests were given assignments covering a 100-mile radius, traveled by horseback or on foot.
Bishop Whelan was exhausting the hospitality of bordering priests and knew he had to attract priests and seminarians… Read more
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Dio Wheeling-Charleston 2 months agoAnd just like that – we have another seminarian in Rome!
Joe Derico of St. Patrick’s in Weston arrived at the Pontifical North American College today – and, yes of course, he was promptly greeted by Seminarian Michael Tupta of the Basilica of the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart parish in Charleston.
Praise be to God!
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Dio Wheeling-Charleston 2 months agoAll in a day’s work! We love our pastors assigned to our Catholic schools – servant leaders!
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Dio Wheeling-Charleston 2 months agoCELEBRATING OUR 175TH
“He Had a Reputation – Tough As Nails”
When the original St. James Church in Wheeling had fallen in disrepair, Bishop Whelan led the campaign for a new church to be constructed. A site was secured, and in 1847, a cornerstone laid for the parish that later became the Cathedral of St. Joseph.
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Dio Wheeling-Charleston 2 months agoWe see our seminarian Daniel Long in the third picture listening to Father Steven Beseau, Rector/President of The Pontifical College Josephinum. Please, keep Daniel, all of our seminarians, and all those God is calling to serve the Church in your prayers.
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Dio Wheeling-Charleston 2 months agoPope Leo XIV is calling us to observe Aug. 22 – the commemoration of the Queenship of Mary – as a day of prayer and fasting for peace and justice, particularly in Ukraine and in the Holy Land.
“Mary is the Mother of the faithful here on earth and is remembered as the Queen of Peace,” the Pope said.
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Dio Wheeling-Charleston 2 months agoCELEBRATING OUR 175TH
BETTER TOGETHER
Today is a significant day in the history of our diocese fifty-one years ago today, on August 21, 1974, Bishop Joseph Hodges obtained approval from the Holy See to redraw the boundaries of the diocese to correspond with the state, and further renaming the diocese the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston.… Read more -
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Dio Wheeling-Charleston 2 months agoAugust 21st honor Our Lady of Knock, Ireland.- The Silent and Motionless Apparition
From the archives of FaithInWV:
It was evening and the persistent mist of the day started to turn to rain and the skies were becoming dark on August 21, 1879, in the poor village of Knock in western Ireland. That is how the significant day was described when… Read more -
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Dio Wheeling-Charleston 2 months agoAugust 21st honor Pope St. Pius X
Pope Saint Pius X was born Giuseppe Sarto in 1835. He was affectionately nicknamed “Bepi” by his family – a modest but happy and faithful Catholic family in Italy. He was one of nine children raised on a farm in Italy near Venice. His father Giovanni Sarto was a mailman and his mother Margarita, a seamstress.… Read more - Load More
