SMOYFest, the annual parish festival of St. Margaret of York, takes place the last weekend of July. It is a special time when the community comes together to connect and have fun. The efforts of countless volunteers make the festival a positive experience for the Loveland, OH community and beyond.

Join us as Archbishop Robert G. Casey of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati throws out the first pitch at an upcoming Cincinnati Reds home game. Media are invited to capture footage of Archbishop Casey’s ceremonial first pitch on Saturday, August 30 at Great American Ballpark. The pitch will be around 6:25 p.m., prior …

Reverend M. Edmund Hussey passed away on Friday, August 22, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. He was born on June 24, 1933, in Sidney, Ohio and was baptized at Holy Angels Church, Sidney. He did his preparatory studies at St. Gregory Seminary, Cincinnati, and studied philosophy and theology at Mount St. …

Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Margarita Maria Barranco Brewer died July 31, 2025, at the age of 84 in Mother Margaret Hall, the nursing facility for the Sisters of Charity. Born on June 6, 1941, she was the daughter of Edelberto and Rosa (Marengo) Barranco in La Chorrera, Panama, and …

Janszen, Sister Berenice, 99, died at St. Leonard on August 15, 2025, in Centerville, Ohio. She was born December 1925 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and entered the Sisters of the Precious Blood, Dayton, Ohio, in 1943, receiving the religious name Sister Mary Edward. For 82 years, she faithfully served God, His …

In this feast, particularly cherished by the Popes of modern times, we celebrate Mary as the Queen of Heaven and Earth. Pope Pius XII in the Papal Encyclical Ad Coeli Reginam proposed the traditional doctrine on the Queenship of Mary and established this feast for the Universal Church. Pope Pius …

St. Francis told his brothers to go to where the people gathered. In today’s world, that means sporting events. What a great place to evangelize! Father Casey takes you to GameDay when The Notre Dame Fighting Irish traveled to the University of Georgia to meet the Bulldogs in 2019.

Note: This article is part of an ongoing series on Pope St. John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body.” Before going on to the final part of Theology of the Body (TOB) on marriage, Pope St. John Paul II concluded his threefold meditation on the nature of the human person …

As Catholics, we do not make a hard separation between the sacred and the profane, nor do we see “secular” things as somehow inhabiting a different world from “religious” things. Yes, we can identify the conceptual difference between the secular and the religious for certain purposes, but these are two …