By Tom Tracy Catholic News Service WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Last spring, a Cincinnati man who was convicted of imprisoning and transporting multiple women for the purpose of commercial sex in the Ohio-Kentucky region was sentenced to 180 months for operating a sex trafficking scheme. In addition, the U.S. Justice …

CNA/EWTN News Pope Francis has instituted a new day of prayer and celebration for the Church entitled the “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation,” to be celebrated on September 1 each year. The day of prayer is in keeping with the theme of the Holy Father’s newest …

By John Stegeman The Catholic Telegraph When the University of Dayton assumed its present identity in 1920, the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception was more than 50 years old. Just shy of a century later, the chapel that has long served as a spiritual center for students is scheduled to …

Staff Report *Clearly not actually Pope Francis The work week has been nearly put to bed and visions of weekend fun are dancing through your head. What better way to celebrate the weekend than supporting a parish festival and snapping a selfie with the pope — or at least a life-size …

Staff Report Responding to the call of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si, Archbishop of Cincinnati Dennis M. Schnurr hosted a press conference Wednesday in the former school building at St. Monica-St. George in University Heights. The archbishop outlined how parishes and offices throughout the archdiocese are putting Pope Francis’s groundbreaking encyclical …

Staff Report Just less than a year ago Facebook and Twitter feeds were completely full of people dumping buckets of ice water on their heads and challenging others to do the same to raise money and awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative condition affecting roughly 30,000 Americans. News …

Staff Report It can be easy in the summer months to focus so much on vacations and trips to the pool or backyard BBQs while we neglect the liturgical calendar of the church. While the month of August takes place in “ordinary time,” here’s some extraordinary ways to involve your family …

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Catholics who have divorced and are civilly remarried “are not, in fact, excommunicated — they are not excommunicated — and they absolutely must not be treated as if they were,” Pope Francis said. Resuming his Wednesday general audiences Aug. 5 after a …

CNA/EWTN News A citizen journalism group investigating abortion clinics’ procurement of organs and tissue from unborn babies has pledged to contest a court order barring the release of recordings made of an abortionists’ conference. The Center for Medical Progress said that it follows “all applicable laws” and that it will …

By Sarah Anne Carter For The Catholic Telegraph In 1815, a man named Gaspar joined with a few other priests to devote themselves to the Most Precious Blood of Jesus and their legacy has spread through the entire world, with one of their headquarters set in Dayton. St. Gaspar Melchior …