Thursday, April 22, 2010 ST. MARYS DEANERY — “Stepping Up the Call,” the seventh annual pilgrimage for vocations awareness, will be held Saturday, May 8. The event includes stops for prayer/presentations at up to six churches and religious sites in Mercer and Auglaize counties, beginning with morning prayer at St. …

Thursday, April 22, 2010 By Eileen Connelly, OSU ARCHDIOCESE — A young mother has lost twin babies to serious illness because her village is separated from the nearest hospital by a checkpoint that is closed at night. A family has lost their freedom and land due to the wall that …

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 ST. FRANCIS DE SALES DEANERY — The Athenaeum of Ohio’s George C. Findley Memorial Lecture, “Marriage in Minority Communities: The Contribution of the Catholic Church.” will be presented by Helen M. Alvaré on Wednesday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m., in the Bartlett Pastoral Center on the …

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 ARCHDIOCESE — Nearly 700 Greater Cincinnati area Catholic school employees — from teachers, teacher’s aides, principals and maintenance personnel to pastors and deacons — will be on hand next week to celebrate Catholic schools at the Archdiocese of Cincinnati’s annual Cincinnati Catholic Schools Banquet.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 Marianist Father Thomas Schoen, a pioneer in computer science education, who founded one of the oldest computer science programs in the nation at the University of Dayton, died April 14, at Mercy Siena Gardens in Dayton. He was 78.

Thursday, April 22, 2010 By Michael Daley Even to the most casual observer, it’s been easy to see that the church has been taking it pretty hard on the chin lately. Most of the blows, sadly, have been self-inflicted. It’s like I keep hearing the deafening echo in my ears of …

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 By Father Timothy Schehr Fourth Sunday of Easter: Acts 13:14, 43-52; Revelation 7:9-17; John 10:27-30 Here’s a good Bible question to think about: What image for God is so popular we find it in the Bible from beginning to end? The answer: God as Shepherd. The second …

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 By Mike Dyer and Eileen Connelly, OSU ST. FRANCIS DE SALES DEANERY — Community outreach and service to others have been a tradition for the Ursuline Sisters of Cincinnati for 100 years, so when the idea of sponsoring a Habitat for Humanity house developed nearly two …

Monday, April 19, 2010 Dorothy Holiday, 83, a member of St. Jude the Apostle Parish in Bridgetown, died April 14. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated April 20 at St. Jude Church. B.J. Meyer Sons Funeral Home handled the arrangements.

Monday, April 19, 2010 By Eileen Connelly, OSU ST. FRANCIS DE SALES DEANERY — Delicious food and good conversation made for a meaningful evening March 23 when approximately 120 laypeople and women religious gathered at Nativity of Our Lord Parish in Pleasant Ridge. The potluck dinner was organized by members of …