A controversial proposal to build a chapel on Chilson Road in Genoa Township is heading to the township s Board of Trustees.
Catholic Healthcare International, a Missouri-based organization, submitted plans to the township in February to build a 6,090 square-foot church, along with some outdoor statues on a wooded parcel of land at 3280 Chilson Road. The plan narrowly passed through the Planning Commission with a 4-3 vote on March 8.
The organization wants to recreate St. Padre Pio s chapel in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. CHI is promising a peaceful pilgrimage site in Genoa Township with a bronze statue, an outdoor grotto, Stations of the Cross and walking trails throughout the property.
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This story has been updated with new information on the origins of the photo and with Lansing Catholic s statement. While
school administrators originally believed the photo was taken during a student theater production, they later confirmed it was from a 1978 Halloween assembly at the school.
LANSING A furor broke out on social media Thursday morning after a Catholic high school posted a photo from the 1978-9 yearbook appearing to show students performing a Nazi salute, at least one of them in a KKK hood.
The photo was posted to Lansing Catholic High School s Instagram and Facebook pages around 9:45 a.m., accompanied by a #ThrowbackThursday hashtag, according to screenshots provided to the Lansing State Journal.
The 1978 yearbook photo from a Halloween assembly was taken down around 10:30 a.m. Thursday. A member of the school's social media team is on administrative leave.
February 4, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com
A group of women from Livingston County who dress as nuns and gained notoriety as supporters of former President Donald Trump, are not nuns at all, at least not those recognized by the Roman Catholic Church.
An article Wednesday in the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) says the women, who go by the name of, The Dominican Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary are based in Hartland Township, but according to a spokesman for the Diocese of Lansing, do not have canonical standing within the Church. The paper says that the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, the two associations of Catholic women religious in the United States, also confirmed that the Dominican Sisters are not members of either body. In addition, they are also not listed in the Official Catholic Directory, which the NCR says is, the only authorized directory listing official C