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BROWN COUNTY, Wis. (WBAY) – A major announcement Monday for the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay: The Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion was officially designated a National Shrine. Bishop David Ricken announced the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help is now designated a national shrine by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as hundreds of pilgrims arrived for the annual August 15 mass celebrating the Solemnity of the Assumption. “We have the unique distinction of being the only place in the United States of America that has an officially approved apparition of the Blessed Mother...

Global Rosary at the National Shrine The Basilica of the National Shrine will join Marian Shrines from around the world in praying the Rosary live via satellite on Saturday, October 12, 2013, at 1:00pm. Come pray the Rosary and take part in this live worldwide broadcast event. The afternoon will begin with a welcome message from Pope Francis and will include the arrival of the original statue of Our Lady of Fatima to the Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love in Rome. Other participating Shrines include Our Lady of Lourdes in France, Our Lady of Czestochowa in Poland, Our...

Dario Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei," is the Celebrant and Homilist at an extraordinary form Mass at the National Shrine, Upper Church, Saturday, April 24, 2010, 1:00pm. This is surely the first time in the post-conciliar period (corrections welcome). Here is the item....

The Vatican has designated the Cathedral of Saint Paul to be the first national shrine in honor of the Apostle Paul. This special distinction was granted by the Office of the Holy See and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, following a request by The Most Rev. John C. Nienstedt, Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.This will be the first national shrine in the State of Minnesota and the only national shrine in North America dedicated to honor Saint Paul.According to canon (church) law, “The term shrine signifies a church or other sacred place to which the faithful...

Benedict XVI's Address to the U.S. BishopsBasilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Washington, D.C., April 16, 2008 * * * Dear Brother Bishops, It gives me great joy to greet you today, at the start of my visit to this country, and I thank Cardinal George for the gracious words he has addressed to me on your behalf. I want to thank all of you, especially the Officers of the Episcopal Conference, for the hard work that has gone into the preparation of this visit. My grateful appreciation goes also to the staff and volunteers of the...

ROME, MARCH 10, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The Choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., has been in Rome over the last week on a recording tour to honor John Paul II. The choir is working on a CD, due for release this autumn. The idea for it came from the Year of the Eucharist and the man behind it, according to the choir's musical director, Peter Latona. "I'm always coming up with new activities for this professional chorus in addition to them providing the ordinary and proper texts at midday liturgies of the...

Statement regarding the Tridentine Mass and the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter June 24, 2003 In response to various comments and inquiries, following is an explanation of why the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter was prohibited from celebrating a Tridentine Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine. Earlier this year, the Basilica of the National Shrine had granted permission for a Eucharistic liturgy to be celebrated June 22 by a group on pilgrimage from Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary. No mention was made of a Tridentine Mass in the original requests to the liturgy office or pilgrimage office, nor...