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The Catholic Telegraph

Founded in 1831, The Catholic Telegraph is the official news source of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

God is good. God is real. God is not boring. He is worthy of our praise and our worship. But what is worship? As the Oxford Dictionary says, worship is “the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity.” As a cradle Catholic, I could give a similar …

By Kary Ellen Berger As students prepare to complete the current school year, opportunities await for the 2024-25 school year with the expansion of Ohio’s EdChoice Scholarship program. This program, once designated for students living in underperforming school districts, is now open to all students. “Universal EdChoice Expansion aligns with …

The new Cabrini movie is taking the world by storm, with rave reviews from the secular and Catholic worlds alike. The biopic depicts Mother Cabrini’s move from Italy to New York, where she’s sent to assist the underserved Italian immigrant community. The moving film shows her work to provide orphanages …

Jesuit Spiritual Center at Milford 5361 S. Milford Rd., Milford, 45150 | jesuitspiritualcenter.com Guided by the mission to accompany individuals into a deeper relationship with God, the Jesuit Spiritual Center (JSC) offers transformative retreat experiences rooted in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. For almost a century, the …

“In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirin’ius was governor of Syria. And all went to be enrolled, each to his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of …

In 1992, British novelist P.D. James departed from her usual genre of detective fiction to write a dystopian novel about the growing prevalence of what Pope St. John II later called “the culture of death.” This culture, wrote John Paul in the 1995 encyclical, Evangelium Vitae, is “fostered by powerful …

Many young people have left the Catholic Church or, at the very least, find themselves questioning their beliefs over perceived contradictions between the faith and science. At Moeller High School, a science and religion teacher joined forces to address this perceived problem. Sean Leugers, a science teacher at Moeller, was …

Author Angie Kim shares that she was inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s famous book, The Little Prince, when she was a child in Seoul, Korea. Her attention riveted on these lines: “One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs and …

by Lisa Fletcher Preparing to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2027, Roger Bacon Catholic High School looks toward the future. With more than 520 students, the Cincinnati coed high school is preparing for the next century through its We are the Good Soil Capital Campaign, which includes a new atrium …

The precursor to Holy Redeemer Church in New Bremen was a Catholic mission that operated for 20 years. The current parish was founded more than 50 years after the mission closed. 1883 Land for a new settlement purchased by the Bremen Company of Cincinnati, for a Protestant town to be …