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FATHER ROBERT HAAS
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Friday, 04 May 2012
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Most of us remember sitting at a desk when we went to school. We older ones remember a hole on the right hand side to put your inkwell. A few us might remember dipping a girl’s pigtail in the bottle of ink we kept in that well. I did it in the third grade to Nancy sitting in front of me. I also re...
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FATHER ROBERT HAAS
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Friday, 06 April 2012
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In August 1960, the newly appoint Vicar-Apostolic Bishop George Bernarding wrote the mother superior of the Notre Dame sisters in Rome requesting members of the congregation to help in the new vicariate of Mt. Hagen, territory of New Guinea. She in t...
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FATHER ROBERT HAAS
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Friday, 03 February 2012
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With the fall of Saigon in 1975 Catholic Charities USA, Lutheran Social Services, and several other private, mostly religious, agencies were called upon to resettle refugees from Vietnam and Laos.
Toledo Catholic Charities resettled some 1,000 refug...
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FATHER ROBERT HAAS
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Friday, 06 January 2012
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Few of us have ever been called upon to build a new church. But when Father Ben Kosnac, pastor of SS. Cyril and Methodius Church in Sterling Heights, Mich., and Father Peter Simko from Slovakia visited Tanzania three years ago, they found a group of ...
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FATHER ROBERT HAAS
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Friday, 02 December 2011
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Hearing about and supporting the missions are nothing new to most Catholics. As a grade-school student at Galion St. Joseph, I vividly remember hearing a missionary priest tell us about a snake in Africa that stands several feet tall and shoots venom...
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FATHER ROBERT HAAS Friday, 04 November 2011 One of the tragic things I learned about going to Tanzania the last two years was the ill treatment of the albinos there. There are more than 150,000 in Tanzania and nearby Kenya. Their almost pure wh... |
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FATHER ROBERT HAAS Friday, 07 October 2011 “Water, water, everywhere and not a drop to drink!” is a popular quote of the Ancient Mariner in the 18th century poem by Samuel Coleridge as he surveyed the salty seawater that was not drinkable.... |
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FATHER ROBERT HAAS Friday, 02 September 2011 Almost all of us have heard of Columbine High School in Colorado where, in April 1999, the worst massacre at any high school in the United States took place. Two high schools students killed 12 fellow... |
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FATHER ROBERT HAAS Monday, 08 August 2011 Just before His ascension, our Lord told the apostles to go into the whole world and teach all people whatever He had taught them, and Christians have been doing that ever since. Before the Twelve die... |
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