Reverend Richard Rice Obituary My family met Father Rice when he was the pastor of Holy Family Parish in Sanford. He was a religious leader, an advocate for the Saint Thomas parochial school and a mentor to women religious. Maine has lost a devout priest who helped many people. He was blessed and will be missed. Brunswick - Very Rev. Richard P. Rice, 91, of Ward Circle died Friday, February 21, 2025, at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick. He was born in Biddeford on December 11, 1933, the only child to John and Mary Margaret (O’Brien) Rice. Father Richard Rice first considered the priesthood in sixth grade. He graduated from Cheverus High School in Portland in 1952. While attending college, in 1954, he met with the Most Reverend Daniel J. Feeney who assigned him as a seminarian for the diocese. After two years of college, he entered St. Paul’s University and Seminary in Ottawa for philosophy and theology studies. On May 21, 1960, Bishop Feeney, ordained Richard a priest of the...
Green Bay Wisconsin- Bishop David L. Ricken announced that the national shrine will begin celebrating an annual Mass with the liturgical rank of solemnity every October 9. National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion, Wisconsin , A Marian shrine in rural northeast Wisconsin, the only shrine in the United States to be designated by the Catholic Church as an approved Marian apparition site, is changing its name. During a press conference April 20, Green Bay Bishop David L. Ricken announced the National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help will now be known as the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion . Read more about the history of this shrine in an article at this site here. Bishop David Ricken: "After I was appointed here- Green Bay Wisconsin, before my installation, I took a little trip with some of the staff members, just to see the major highlights of the diocese, and they were telling me about the story behind the S hrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion . I was de...
Pope apologizes for ‘catastrophic’ school policy in Canada https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/FMfcgzGpHHSGWKBbbNRwKZChxbkhHNNv By David Carey, Religion Team Leader, Associated Press Pope Francis in Maskwacis , in Alberta (AP) Canada Pope Francis delivered a historic apology this week to Indigenous peoples for the abuses suffered at the hands of Catholic missionaries in Canada’s church-run residential schools. In fact, the Associated Press provided wall-to-wall coverage of this consequential papal trip on Canadian soil. Alongside top notch visual crews and an assist from Canadian bureau chief Rob Gillies, the religion team’s Peter Smith and AP Vatican expert, Nicole Winfield, were on the ground to document the pope’s arrival in Edmonton , Alberta, and his monumental request for forgiveness at the site of a former residential school. But the religion team’s work began before the papal plane touched down on Sunday. In anticipation of the pope’s arrival, Smith and...
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