May 24, 2012 Judy Tensing, who for 45 years has served The Athenaeum of Ohio/Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West and for the past 30 years as assistant to Dennis Eagan, Athenaeum vice-president for finance and administration, was presented the papal honor of the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice (For …

May 23, 2012 By Steve Trosley “Go up the the altar of God, the God of our gladness and joy…”  

May 23, 2012 On Monday, May 21, a total of 43 Catholic dioceses, schools and universities, health systems, and charitable organizations filed lawsuits against the federal agencies responsible for the mandate requiring religious institutions and others to provide insurance coverage for activities contrary to their religious convictions.  

May 14, 2012 A Mass of Christian Burial for John Patrick “J.P” Huling will be celebrated at 10 a.m., Tuesday, May 15, at St. Michael Church in Sharonville. Visitation is from 4- 9 p.m., today, May 14, at Moeller High School, 9001 Montgomery Road in Cincinnati. Sgt. Huling, an Explosive, …

May 14, 2012 Archbishop Dennis Schnurr has officially recognized St. Peter Claver Latin School for Boys as the 114th Catholic school of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, effective July 1, 2012.  

May 11, 2012 By Sister Betty Jane Lillie, SC   Sixth Sunday of Easter: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; Psalm 98:1-4; 1 John 4:7-10; John 15:9-17   The Christian message spread fairly quickly after the Pentecost event.

May 10, 2012 About 2,000 University of Dayton students — the most ever in any one semester — received degrees when they crossed the stage in three separate ceremonies.  

May 9, 2012 By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON – The proposed funding cuts in programs that meet the needs of poor and vulnerable people being weighed in the House of Representatives fail a “basic moral test,” said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. …

Sister Therese Beringer   A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister of St. Joseph Therese Beringer was celebrated April 11 at the Mount Notre Dame Chapel in Reading.

May 3, 2012 By Patricia McGeever The Carmelite Sisters of the Aged and Infirm bring Christ to everyone who is under their care. For the last 50 years they’ve been bringing Him to the residents of a yellow brick building on Madison Road in O’Bryonville.  The congregation runs St. Margaret …