Mary Catherine Cormier, the wife of the late Deacon Roy Cormier and longtime parishioner of St. Mary, and then Sacred Heart-St. Mary, Port Arthur, passed away May 30.
The funeral will be held Saturday June 9 at Sacred Heart-St. Mary, 920 Booker T. Washington Ave., Port Arthur, at 10 a.m. The body will arrive at the church at 8 a.m.
“She was a great woman and support for me while I was pastor at St. Mary’s. She suffered greatly over the last fifteen years or so with her diabetes,” Father Sinclair Oubre, pastor of St. John the Evangelist, Port Arthur, said.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi confirmed that Paolo Gabriele, the pope’s private assistant, was arrested after private Vatican documents were found in his possession in connection to the so-called “VatiLeaks” scandal that began in January.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican said it is committed to restoring a sense of trust and transparency as it seeks the truth behind leaks of letters written by Vatican officials to each other and Pope Benedict XVI.
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, is discontinuing its student health insurance plan in the upcoming school year in opposition to the Obama administration’s mandate requiring most religious employers, including colleges, to provide no-cost contraceptive and sterilization coverage in its health insurance plans.
