No Kings Day: Saturday, March 28

Across our nation thousands will gather on this day to protest Donald Trump's attempts to act like a king who imposes his own will upon our nation rather than a president who seeks to encurage a flourishing democracy. Below is a list of locations in our area where non-violent peaceful protests will occur. We encourage you to find one near you and come to be a part of this action. Fr. Tom Lumpkin

• NO KINGS, Downtown Detroit Grand Circus Park, 2026 Woodward, 3-5 PM
• NO KINGS, Grosse Pointe, Harper Woods & Eastside Detroit Corner of Mack & Cadieux, 11AM-1PM
• NO KINGS, Ferndale Corner of Nine Mile & Woodward, 12-2 PM
• NO KINGS, Wyandotte Wyandotte City Hall, 3200 Biddle Ave, 12-2 PM
• NO KINGS, Oak Park Corner of Ten Mile & Coolidge Hwy., 12-2 PM
• NO KINGS, Taylor Heritage Park, 1241 Pardee Road, 12-3 PM>
• NO KINGS, Farmington Hills, Farmington Community Library, 32737 Twelve Mile Road, 1-3 PM
• NO KINGS, Northville & Livonia Schoolcraft College, 188600 Haggerty Road, Livonia, 11AM- 1PM
• NO KINGS, Macomb, Hall Road & Schoenherr, Sterling Heights, 11AM-1PM
• NO KINGS, Rochester & Rochester Hills Corner of Rochester Road & Auburn Road, 11AM-1PM
• NO KINGS, Troy Gateway Park E. Big Beaver Road, 1PM-3PM
• NO KINGS Livonia Livonia Civic Center Library, 38777 Five Mile Road, 1-3PM
• NO KINGS, Canton Canton Township Administration Building, 11AM-2PM
• NO KINGS, Novi All four corners of Grand River & Novi Road

Brenna Davis:
Reflections on Creation Spirituality
Tuesday, May 5th, 1–3:30 pm
St. Blase Social Hall
12151 15 Mile Rd, Sterling Heights, MI 48312

In our time, concern for the environment has become a serious moral issue, which in turn has led to an awakening in our spiritual life nd practices. Here is and invitation and opportunity to embrace a “Creation Spirituality” that invites a care for God’s creation to be an integral part of our everyday outlooks and practices.

Brenna Davis is currently the Director of Integral Ecology for the Ignatian Spiritual Network. She coes to us highly recommended, and is well qualified to offer helpful reflections on this topic.

As usual, a free will offering will be taken up to cover costs. If you would like to have a light lunch beforehand (12 Noon to 1 pm), please contact Tom Lumpkin at (313) -7271, or via email at lumpkinthomas433@gmail.com

Women's Participation in the Catholic Church

Ellie Hidalgo
March 11, 2026 at Our Lady of Fatima Church, Oak Park, MI

Ellie Hildago presented her reflections on Paragraph 60: Women’s Participation in the Church, Paragraph 60 as part of the final document produced by the recently concluded worldwide Synod on Synodality that involved thousands of Catholics from every spectrum of Church life. She also considered the newly-published Paragraph 73, which deals with the Diaconate. Ellie Hidalgo is co-director of Discerning Deacons, aa project that engages Catholics in active discernment on the place of women in the ordained diaconate. She previously spoke at an Elephants’ forum on “Restoring Catholic Women to the Permanent Diaconate.”

The Transcript of this Forum will be available in early April.