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Cardinals, bishops, governor to take part in events celebrating the Sacred Heart Cathedral groundbreaking

April 8, 2015

What a month! April began with the holiest of weeks leading to Easter Sunday, but the celebration is just beginning. This month will go down in the annals of the Diocese of Knoxville as one of the most memorable since the diocese was founded when ground is broken on the …

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A learning experience

July 18, 2025 8:29 am | By Bill Brewer

Fr. Charters’ 50 years as a priest have been a lesson in adapting By Bill Brewer Father Tom Charters has been nominated for the Lumen Christi Award, Catholic Extension Society’s highest honor. It’s fitting recognition for a priest who has served the Catholic faith for more than 50 years. Father Charters is marking his fifth decade in the priesthood this year, and as the Glenmary Home Missioners priest looks back, he’s filled with much gratitude, many good memories—and some heartbreak—for his time as a priest with the Glenmary order. Ordination anniversaries are difficult for a priest to keep to himself, but that doesn’t mean Father Charters didn’t try. The pastor of St. Michael the Archangel Parish in Erwin, who is known for his humility and a personal preference to be “behind the scenes,” only alerted his congregation to the milestone on Pentecost Sunday, June 8, when they noticed photographers taking... Read more →

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