The Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission voted unanimously Wednesday at an emergency meeting to designate the Church of the Holy Cross as a historic landmark.
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Officials with St. John the Evangelist want to build the 2,800-square-foot facility as part of a larger $5.5 million renovation that started in 2021. They hope to finish in time for the huge National Eucharistic Congress planned for Indianapolis in July.
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A request to replat the site initially led to some concern among neighbors that some of First Baptist Church’s property would be used for housing development.
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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved plans Wednesday for Indianapolis to host a National Eucharistic Congress, a five-day summer event that organizers say could draw as many as 80,000 people to the city.
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The National Eucharistic Congress will use about 27,000 hotel room nights over five days. The event officially runs Wednesday through Sunday, but a welcome service took place Tuesday night at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church (see photo gallery in story).
Our guest this week is Ken Ogorek of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, who discusses the revival and purpose of the Eucharistic Congress after an 83-year absence.
The event will be the church’s first national gathering in more than 80 years, marking one of the most significant religious events the city has ever hosted.
Over the next six to 12 months, the organization will be scaling up in order to play what one organizer called “offense” in a statewide push for efforts intended to decrease poverty, a root cause of crime.
On Wednesday, church representatives are expected to debate whether to amend their constitution to ban churches with any women pastors—from lead to associate roles. The measure received preliminary approval last year.
Messengers—as voting delegates are known—will vote on whether to establish a constitutional ban on churches with women pastors. They’ll hear a report—and get outside criticism—of their handling of sexual abuse among their clergy.
More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people in the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination.
Johnson is also an author, as well as president and CEO of eight organizations. “Sacrifice is extremely significant for success,” he said. “What you walk away from will determine what you walk in to.”
The Indianapolis-based organization says the funding will expand training opportunities, build congregational capacities, and assist with stewardship of historic churches.
The Promise United Methodist Church stopped holding services in November 2021. The building, which includes a 21,000-square-foot theater, was most recently used as a preschool until the summer of 2022.
The Indiana Supreme Court found the church-autonomy doctrine prohibits the state from interfering in the Catholic Church’s dispute with a high school teacher who claimed he was fired for being in a same-sex marriage.
This fall, Percy Bland Jr. also accepted a two-year volunteer appointment by the City-County Council to the Marion County Board of Zoning Appeals.
Traders Point first announced plans for its Midtown campus in January 2020, a few weeks after it closed on its $7.6 million purchase of the Marsh store east of Broad Ripple.
The one-page order dismissed the wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a gay teacher against the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.
A new kids hub, dubbed the ROCK Community Center for Children & Youth, is under construction at 5750 E. 30th St. and is set to open next year.
The measure, which heads to the governor, would prohibit state and local orders from restricting anyone’s ability to attend religious services during disaster emergencies.
The punter-turned-multimedia-star initially ran into skeptics in the neighborhood, fearful that his plans for a sports field and basketball courts would create a nuisance or attract crime.
Indianapolis-based KCG Cos. hopes to build as many as 200 apartment or townhome units for working-class residents, which would be adjacent to a new home for Mt. Paran Baptist Church on Franklin Road.
The massive Italian Renaissance edifice, with its 136-foot bell tower, in August landed for the second year in a row on Indiana Landmarks’ 10 Most Endangered list.
The flu killed 20 parishioners within three months, including the two shown in this photo of a 1918 funeral at Holy Trinity Catholic Church.
