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Pope Francis: Priority is concern for poor
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Unlike St. John Paul II and the late Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis did not attend any of the council sessions. He was ordained to the priesthood Dec. 13, 1969, and is the first pope to be ordained a priest after Vatican II.
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As for disagreements with or even controversies about the papacy of Pope Francis, Cardinal Czerny warned against confusing “loud with representative or loud with majority. Loud doesn’t mean any of those things; it means loud.”
A special prayer initiative for the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ pontificate
Sr. Marie Grossman, CSJ, died Feb. 25, 2023, at Carondelet Village in St. Paul. Christian Burial was held on March 3 at Resurrection Cemetery in Mendota Heights. A Celebration of Life Mass was held on March 4 at Our Lady of the Presentation Chapel, St. Paul.
Marie was born on June 27, 1923, and raised on a farm in Chokio, Minn., to John and Anne (Leuthard) Grossman. After graduation, she answered the call to serve her country during WWII by working as a riveter at Boeing Aircraft in Seattle, Wash. In 1943, she returned home and entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in St. Paul, Minn.
In 1956, she earned a BA in History and Education from the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, and in 1962, an MA in
Sister Marie served at St. Mary’s, the Cathedral, and Holy Spirit parish in St. Paul, the Basilica in Minneapolis, and St. Michael’s in Grand Forks, ND. In 1976, she was appointed Assistant Province Director for the CSJ community, serving in province administration until 1982. For the next ten years, she served in the Diocese of New Ulm at the Church of St. Joseph in Lamberton as one of the first pastoral administrators in the diocese. In 1986, Bishop Raymond A. Lucker awarded her with the New Ulm Diocesan Distinguished Service Award for her generous, gentle leadership.
In 1995 she moved to Gaylord, Minn. with younger sister Agatha Grossman, CSJ, where together they created a youth center and worked with the growing Hispanic population as they learned English. For their ministry they received the Gaylord Chamber of Commerce Community Service Award and the Paul Harris Fellowship Award from the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International.
