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It’s been almost a year since Fr. Francis Vu Tran, SCJ, left St. Martin of Tours Parish in Franklin, Wis., for Rome. Most of that year has been spent in language studies in preparation for graduate work in biblical theology at [...]
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In the literal sense, a building is just a material object. It is brick and mortar, electrical lines and pipes. It is a place to keep people and their things dry and warm (or pleasantly cool, depending on the time of year).
Yet these inanimate [...]
Frater Duy is pictured with Fr. Charlie Bisgrove, making his first profession in 2006.
Frater Duy Nguyen, SCJ, didn’t have to go to far when he joined the province formation program. Born and raised on the north side of Chicago, Frater Duy now lives and studies only a short drive from his childhood haunts.
He first [...]
