Thursday, October 1, 2009 CATHEDRAL DEANERY — St. Monica-St. George Parish Newman Center is sponsoring a year of events devoted to writer, activist and Trappist Monk Thomas Merton.

Thursday, October 1, 2009 By Mike Dyer ST. FRANCIS DE SALES DEANERY — Mary Bridges stood in the front of the undercroft at St. Mary Parish in Hyde Park with a microphone in hand and spoke candidly to the audience about the struggle she had endured to remain in her …

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 ARCHDIOCESE — Some 5,000 Catholic educators from Ohio are expected be in attendance at the Ohio Catholic Education Association (OCEA) Convention Oct. 8-9 at the Duke Energy Center.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 ARCHDIOCESE — A 64-page page book, Our Dear Old Julienne, from Notre Dame Academy to Chaminade-Julienne and Beyond, is set to be published in December.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 ST. FRANCIS DE SALES DEANERY — The Athenaeum Chorale will present Sunday Vespers at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4. The chorale is under the direction of Athenaeum music director Anthony DiCello.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 ST. ANDREW DEANERY — Students, faculty, staff and parents at Royalmont Academy in Mason celebrated their many blessings during a special Mass of Thanksgiving with Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk on Sept. 25.

Thursday, October 1, 2009 By Eileen Connelly, OSU God has blessed me with many loving, supportive relationships among my fellow Ursuline Sisters, family and friends. As we prepare to mark the Oct. 4 feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the lover of all creation, it also seems fitting to celebrate …

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 By Father Rob Waller Molly Moira would have been born a week before St. Patrick’s Day, except that she was miscarried on Aug. 2.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 By Father Timothy Schehr Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: Genesis 2:18-24; Hebrews 2:9-11; Mark 10:2-16 If any of us have been to a wedding lately it’s very likely we heard the same Gospel passage we hear this Sunday: “. . . man shall leave his father and mother and …

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Franciscan Sister of the Poor Marie Heitkamp, a native of Dayton, died Sept. 17 at Mercy Franciscan Terrace in Cincinnati. She was 84.