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We are a community of believers -- students, faculty, staff and alumni -- growing together in faith. You are welcome to join us, regardless of your faith background.

Whether you’re interested in liturgy, have questions or just want to talk, we’re here for you. More about the Catholic Community.

Join us for Mardi Gras Feb. 13

Our annual Mardi Gras celebration will be Saturday, Feb. 13, with a feast and fun after mass at 5. What is Mardi Gras anyway?

Ash Wednesday follows on Feb. 17, marking the start of Lent.

More information: the second-semester mass schedule, Lent and events for the spring semester.

Earthquake in Haiti -- the Catholic perspective

Catholic Relief Services, one of the leading relief agencies working in Haiti, is delivering food, shelter and medical care to survivors of the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Read more or donate to CRS.

Our local diocese operates a mission house in Port-au-Prince to support two orphanages, a meal program for children and a medical clinic. For more on how the disaster is affecting the mission, visit the Diocese of Norwich Haitian Ministries' web site.

Visit the Catholic News Service and the National Catholic Reporter for more about the Catholic perspective on the quake.

Trying to find meaning in the suffering? Wondering how you can possibly help? Read "Compassion for Haiti: the Gift of Tears."

Heath care reform

Genuine health care reform that protects the life and dignity of all is a moral imperative and a vital national obligation.

That objective is laid out in a July 17 letter from a commitee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to all members of the U.S. House and Senate. Read the bishops' letter outlining Catholic priorities.

For more about the Church's position and suggestions on how to get involved, vist the USCCB's web site on health care reform.

Leaving it all up to
St. Joseph (and God)

André Bessette was focused on one thing: doing God's work.

This simplicity -- a stripping away of all that is inessential -- makes him this week's hero of faith.

"I have," he said, "only my great devotion to St. Joseph to guide me."

Read more.

"If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days."

Annie Dillard