TRL marks pro-life victories as legislation becomes law

Tennessee Right to Life backed Prenatal Life and Liberty, Unborn Child Dignity acts that Gov. Lee has signed into law By Dan McWilliams Tennessee Right to Life is celebrating two victories in the state legislature while at the same time watching an important appeals-court case and a Mississippi case going …

 Funeral Mass held for St. Joseph Church pianist Dr. Angelo Miceli

A funeral Mass was held June 5 for Dr. Angelo Sylvestro Natale Miceli, a longtime parishioner of St. Joseph Parish in Norris, who died May 27 at the age of 107. Dr. Miceli played the piano and organ for Masses at St. Joseph long after he turned 100, and served …

Sr. Mary Noel Pereira, RSM, named school principal in Lake Charles, La.

The Diocese of Lake Charles The Diocese of Lake Charles Office of Catholic Schools has appointed a former Diocese of Knoxville youth ministry leader as the new principal for Immaculate Conception Cathedral School in Lake Charles, La. Sister Mary Noel Pereira, RSM, a member of the Religious Sisters of Mercy …

TRL supporter Dot LaMarche honored for a lifetime of pro-life work

By Robert Alan Glover Tennessee Register Mary Dorothy “Dot” LaMarche has been an advocate for respecting life from conception to natural death throughout her life. “This is the way that I was raised by my parents — in the Catholic faith — and to believe that even the unborn have …

Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention coming to Nashville in 2022

The Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus will return to Nashville and the Opryland Hotel in August 2022. “I received a letter from Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly informing me that we have been chosen as the host for 2022,” Nashville Bishop J. Mark Spalding said. “It’s an honor to …

Sent forth to proclaim the Word of God

Sending of the Neophytes Mass resumes as East Tennessee’s newest Catholics pick up the cross By Dan McWilliams Many of the nearly 200 people who came into the Catholic Church at this year’s Easter Vigil in the Diocese of Knoxville were formally sent forth in the annual Sending of the …

Sacred Heart, KCHS graduate Brian Bradley Maves dies

Brian Bradley Maves, born on Jan. 30, 1985, in Iowa, died May 9 at the age of 36. He was brought up in the Catholic faith and was a student at Sacred Heart Cathedral School and Knoxville Catholic High School. He attended Miami University in Ohio, majoring in political science …

Funeral Mass held for Phyllis Rose Clem Roberts Baer

Phyllis Rose Clem Roberts Baer passed away May 10 at the Ben Atchley State Veterans Home from Alzheimer’s disease. A funeral Mass for her was celebrated on May 15 at All Saints Church. Burial followed at Highland Memorial Cemetery. She was born Feb. 26, 1938, in Elkmont, Ala., and graduated …

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He’s retiring and may be hungry, but he won’t be bored

A longtime principal ‘is grateful for the chance I was given to teach those many years ago’ By George Valadie It was eight years ago to the day. I walked into the principal’s office I had heretofore only visited to sit in the chair that had become my turn to …

Missionary Sisters nominated for Lumen Christi award

Sister Maria Imelda Quechol and Sister Eloisa Torralba Aquino of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus “Ad Gentes” have been nominated for Catholic Extension’s annual Lumen Christi Award for their service to the Hispanic community around Chattanooga. The Sisters, who serve an area of need that encompasses …

Changes in life that are symbolized by a new name

From those received at baptism or upon becoming a dad and grandfather, names are intimate things By Bob Hunt There are only a few choices in life so significant that it changes who we are, and that change is symbolized by a new name. There is our baptism, a choice …

Called to community

The choices one makes about identity, meaning, and purpose have an enormous impact on others By Sister Anna Marie McGuan, RSM Men and women are by nature social animals. We usually grow up in a familial setting and attend school with other boys and girls. We learn, through these relationships, …