No doubt, the sun shines on every parish in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, and very soon St. Monica/St. George will be making the most of it. The Clifton parish is the first in the archdiocese to convert to solar energy to light the campus from church, to parish center, to …

Students at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School celebrated Vocation Day Nov. 4 during National Vocations Awareness Week. The day involved an all-school Mass concelebrated by Archdiocese of Cincinnati Vocations Director Father Dan Schmitmeyer and Father Larry Zurek, Vocations Director for the Franciscan Friars of St. John the Baptist Province. …

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Late Monday, the Little Sisters of the Poor, a group of Roman Catholic nuns who care for the elderly poor, urged the Supreme Court to protect them from $70 million dollars in government fines for refusing to violate their Catholic faith. This is the second time the Sisters have been forced to …

Alisha’s world was shattered when her son was murdered last June at a friend’s apartment. Family and friends rallied around her to arrange for his burial, but she still owes the funeral home $1,000. While Alisha works more than 40 hours a week at a fast-food restaurant and a day …

On a recent Wednesday morning, a distraught woman arrived at the office of Birthright of Greater Cincinnati. After a rough start to the day that included a broken down car and missing credit card, the mother of five-month old twin boys found support and advice in the calming presence of …

Let’s be honest. It’s easy to be cynical and jaded about the state of the world today. From the front page news it seems that all there is out there is a daily, ongoing, endless stream of violence. Depressingly, rather than be an antidote to it, religion seems to further …

The “fingerprints of Pope Francis” are on the recent Synod on the Family, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville said Dec. 9 at the James J. Gardner Lecture on Moral Theology. Archbishop Kurtz, who is president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and who was a delegate to the …

Of more than 1,000 stories which appeared in the pages of The Catholic Telegraph and at TheCatholicTelegraph.com in 2015, readers have selected “Archdiocese brings Papal Visit to Cincinnati’s central gathering space” as the top story of the year. Below are the top 10 stories of 2015 as chosen by CT …

A Mass of Christian Burial for Franciscan Sister of the Poor Ann Regina Raterman (nee Margaret Mary) was celebrated Dec. 15 in St. Clare Convent Chapel in Cincinnati. Sister Ann Regina, 77, died on Dec. 11. During her 58 years as a Franciscan Sister of the Poor, she served the …

Marianist Brother Robert Johns died Dec. 2 in Dayton. He was 84 and had been a Marianist for 66 years. Brother Robert ministered as a “working brother,” serving in maintenance roles. He spent nearly 20 years with a Cincinnati nonprofit organization, People Working Cooperatively, providing home repair services to low-income …