Wednesday, January 6, 2010 ST. ANDREW DEANERY — Another installment of the high-energy high school youth rally Cast Your Nets! is coming to Cincinnati this month, sponsored by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati’s Vocations Office and Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry (OYYAM), along with area youth ministers.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 By Eileen Connelly, OSU ARCHDIOCESE — A local educator recently traveled to Rome to meet Pope Benedict XVI and discuss the importance of the Catholic Church’s ministry to the deaf.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 By David Eck DAYTON DEANERY — While most priests tend to minister to a congregation of all ages from all walks of life, Father Edward Burns works primarily with a unique group of Catholics: college students. And it’s obvious he enjoys it.

Monday, January 11, 2010 SIDNEY DEANERY — The 32nd annual Lehman High School Foundation Banquet will be held on Saturday, Jan. 30 at 6 p.m., at the High School in Sidney. Tickets are $125 per person with proceeds earmarked toward Lehman’s student tuition, faculty and building endowment funds.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 By Father Timothy Schehr The Baptism of the Lord: Isaiah 40:1-11; Titus 2:11-14; 3:4-7; Luke 3:15-16, 21-22 So far this liturgical year we have been celebrating events in the Lord’s early years: His birth and the worship of the Magi. Now Luke records for us His …

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 Sister Stanislaus Poehnelt, a Sister of Mercy of the Holy Cross, died Dec. 19 in Merrill, Wis. She was 96.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 Jesuit Father Stephen A. Meder, who served as a teacher and librarian at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati from 1944-55, died Dec. 21 in Pontiac, Mich. He was 98.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 A Mass of Christian Burial for Franciscan Father Marne Breckensiek, who devoted his life as a friar to parish ministry in Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky, was celebrated on Jan. 2 at St. Clement Church in St. Bernard. Father Breckensiek, 71, died Dec. 29 at St. Margaret …

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 A Mass of Christian Burial for Father Mark Schmieder was celebrated on Jan. 2 at St. Francis Seraph Church in Over-the-Rhine. Father William Stockelman served as celebrant and homilist. Father Schmieder, 69, died Dec. 24 in Richland, Wash, where he was being treated for pancreatic cancer.

Monday, December 28, 2009 ST. FRANCIS DE SALES DEANERY — Alyssa Penick says she never worked harder as a student at St. Ursula Academy than in Maria-Rosa Arbona’s class but acknowledges that hard work not only fostered a love of science, but also a love of life.