Wednesday, September 29, 2010 By Father Kyle Schnippel The middle week of September saw diocesan directors of vocations from across the country gathering in the fair city of Milwaukee for our annual convention. As we tend to be on the younger side of the clergy and dominated by extroverts, this …

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 By Mike Dyer ARCHDIOCESE — October will be a busy month for members of the Parishes for Life (PFL) task force in many area faith communities. The task force, which evolved through the archdiocese’s Advocates for Justice Greater Cincinnati Parish Collaborative and receives support from the archdiocesan …

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 COLUMBUS — The Pontifical College Josephinum began its 123rd year of formation with more priests on its faculty than it has had in more than a decade. The faculty of 14 includes a Jesuit, a Father of Mercy, two Dominicans, a Franciscan and priests from dioceses …

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 DAYTON DEANERY — Cincinnati Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr has entrusted Holy Family Parish in Dayton to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) for celebration of the Catholic traditional Latin Mass and sacraments in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 By Eileen Connelly, OSU SIDNEY DEANERY — The 35th annual Northern Area Congress, sponsored by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati’s Northern Area Office of Evangelization and Catechesis was held Sept. 18 at the Upper Valley Joint Vocational School in Piqua. Approximately 250 catechetical leaders, youth ministers, Catholic school …

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 By Father Timothy Schehr Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: Habakkuk 1:2-2:4; 2 Timothy 1:6-14; Luke 17:5-10 Mustard seeds and mulberry trees. Is there any connection? We can be sure if Jesus brings such disparate things together they must serve in some way to teach a lesson …

Monday, September 27, 2010 Joyce Marie Barger (nee Leonard), 67, of Eastgate died Sept. 23. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Sept. 27 at Holy Trinity Church in Batavia. T.P. White & Sons Funeral Home handled the arrangements.

Monday, September 27, 2010 ST. MARTIN DEANERY — St. Peter Parish in New Richmond will celebrate its 160th anniversary on Nov. 7 with a “Home Coming Mass” at 2:30 p.m. The Mass will be followed by a potluck dinner.

Friday, September 24, 2010 DAYTON DEANERY — Daniel J. Curran, president of the University of Dayton, will be honored in November with the 2010 Regional Leadership Award from Dayton Business Journal.

Friday, September 24, 2010 ST. LAWRENCE DEANERY — Earlier this month the Sisters of Charity issued a formal statement on the Democratic Republic of the Congo: