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The weekly “The Rediscover: Hour” radio program is changing its name and revitalizing its format. Starting Jan. 1, its audience will listen to “Practicing Catholic.”

In a 5-4 decision issued just before midnight Nov. 25, the Supreme Court lifted the pandemic restrictions on congregation sizes at houses of worship imposed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Jay and Phoebe Hernandez regularly pray in front of the large Immaculate Heart of Mary statue in their living room. They often pray for the souls of departed relatives and friends.

Ken Kirchberg’s grandparents and father, then merely a toddler, became members of Sacred Heart in Rush City more than a century ago — in 1912. Yet that was 42 years after the parish’s founding in 1870.

Policy benchmarks developed from a study of sexual harassment and misconduct at seminaries and religious houses of formation in the United States are being promoted as a way to stem the abuses that came to light recently about former cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

In an e-mail interview, Adam Fitzpatrick, social mission outreach coordinator in the Center for Mission in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, reflected on how the core of the pope’s third encyclical,“ Fratelli Tutti: On Fraternity and Social Friendship,” affirmed and challenged local Catholics.

Going hungry is bad enough at any time, but at Thanksgiving, a holiday built around enjoying the fruits of a bountiful harvest, being hungry can be extra troublesome.