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Carroll pregnancy center featured by KCs
The Carroll New Creation Pregnancy and Resource Center was featured on the cover of the national Knights of Columbus Columbia magazine for January/February 2025. The local Knights were instrumental in opening the center.
By DAWN PROSSER
Director of Communications
A 1-year-old bundle of energy named Wrenlee was the center of attention at New Creation Pregnancy Resource Center in Carroll, Iowa, when she and her mother, Karlee Jones, visited the familiar facility this past December.
“Being a mom is the best thing in the world,” Jones said with a smile. “I wouldn’t want someone to miss out [on motherhood] or feel like they didn’t have any help.”
When Jones faced an unexpected pregnancy and later gave birth to Wrenlee in December 2023, she was in a vulnerable, albeit common, situation.
“I had a lot of emotion,” the 26-year-old mother recalled. “It’s scary to be a new mom and to do it alone, not knowing how I was going to adjust to my new life and provide for her.”
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Parish programs strengthen marriagesBy DAWN PROSSER
Director of Communications
Marriages are not “happil
Holy Cross Parish, Sioux Cityy ever after” without continuous effort. With everyday challenges of work, running a household and children, married couples can become distracted and often don’t have time to nurture their relationships.
To assist existing marriages, two diocesan parishes are offering an opportunity for couples to strengthen their relationships whether they are newly married or have been married for decades.
Holy Cross Parish of Sioux City offered Building a Eucharistic Marriage program in January 2024 and has kicked off a new session this winter. All Saints Parish of Le Mars kicked off their first meeting this week.
“The ‘Building a Eucharistic Marriage’ course is a seven-part video series, built off of a therapeutic model for change, which connects seven areas for therapeutically strengthening our marriage with seven areas of deepening our relationship with Christ through the Eucharist,” according to the program’s website, eucharisticmarriage.org.
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More Diocesan News
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January 10
Mental health in our world, our country and even in the Diocese of Sioux City is a growing concern. Suicide rates are alarming. Is anyone immune from life and work stressors that can lead to mental health challenges?Read More -
January 9
Although his own children are grown, Jeff Zyzda mentioned he was “nudged by the Holy Spirit” to explore some type of altar server program that Mater Dei Parish in Sioux City could establish. “I grew up as an altar server at St. Francis, (a Sioux City parish that closed in the late 1990s),” said the member of the parish who is also a candidate for the permanent diaconate. “Like everyone, I enjoyed serving but I didn’t think that much about the impact.” It was about two years ago when Zyzda began to really ponder about what could be done to give altar servers a little more direction and support in their ministry.Read More -
January 9
The USCCB released a statement from the Department of Migration and Refugee Services Advocacy and Policy Office this week to articulate the Catholic elements of reform based on social teaching - Catholic elements of immigration reform.Read More -
January 9
Commentary by Sister Anne Marie Walsh, SOLT Most of us could stand to have a little more joy in our lives. In fact, St. Thomas Aquinas said that man cannot live without joy. And if he does not find authentic joy, he will inevitably be drawn to carnal delights (pleasures of the flesh) and the innumerable addictions that derive from them. Pope St. John Paul II speaks of joy this way, “God made us for joy. God is joy, and the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.”Read More
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