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 …

By Maria Macina & John Mulderig Catholic News Service NEW YORK — Faith and comedy can make for an uncomfortable combination. Wits who engage in this volatile mix obviously need to avoid outright irreverence or the trivialization of the sacred. Yet they also have to be wary of artificial restraint since all …

Staff Report Catholics in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati have never struggled to find their digital home. With a name like CatholicCincinnati.org, finding the official website of the archdiocese was always intuitive and now a refresh of its design will further enhance the user experience. The new look of CatholicCincinnati.org went …

By John Stegeman The Catholic Telegraph In a few weeks, the young men who gathered Thursday as brothers in Christ will spend their Friday nights hitting each other with extreme force on the gridiron field. On this evening, though, they knelt together before the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament and prayed the …

Staff Report For the second-straight week, Food for All serves as the subject of Friday Photo. The Archdiocese of Cincinnati officially launched its Food for All campaign in early July, but its unofficial kickoff event happened Tuesday at the offices of Stelter and Brinck in Harrison, Ohio.

Staff Report It turns out there were more than a couple local winners at the Catholic Press Association Awards Banquet in Buffalo, New York on June 27. As previously reported, The Catholic Telegraph and Cincinnati-based St. Anthony Messenger magazine won several awards. So too did the Glenmary Challenge and Comboni …

Staff Report Recently released videos in which officials of Planned Parenthood traffic in human organs, tissues, and body parts from their abortion clinics are chilling and appalling, Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr of Cincinnati said today in a message to priests of the archdiocese. Archbishop Schnurr’s statement was sent to priests …