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A fund-raiser earlier this month at the City Museum Downtown garnered a $6,000 donation for the media campaign of Missourians Against Human Cloning.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Sept. 14 at St. Patrick Church in Downtown St. Louis for Mitchell Branford, an affiliate member of the Capuchin Franciscans.

The fast-growing St. Charles County area is welcoming a new Catholic high school. Barat Academy, a private independent college preparatory school that will offer single-gender education to boys and girls, will open for the 2007-2008 school year in Dardenne Prairie.

Franciscan Father Edmund Mundwiller, OFM, this year is celebrating the 25th jubilee of his ordination as a priest.

Capuchin-Franciscan Brother Mark Schenk has been chosen to serve for six years on the order