What a blessing our Catholic schools are for the children and young adults in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati! As attendance at Mass continues to wane, our Catholic grade and high schools often become the only avenues by which we can teach the beauty of the Gospels—where students attend Mass and …

“Every Christian is called to be a missionary and witness to Christ.” This prompting by Pope Francis might seem like a tall order in western Ohio, but for Sarah Niekamp, a lifelong member of St. Bernard Church in the St. Henry Family of Parishes, the calling to become a missionary …

Three students from Holy Angels Parish in Sidney, who attend St. Franciscan University in Steubenville, embarked on a life-changing mission trip to Deva, Romania. For Carianne Rindler, Agnes Schmiesing and Max Schmiesing, the experience was a profound journey of faith, love and service and a chance to connect deeply with …

The archdiocese plans to bring our next generation face- to-face with Jesus Christ: the new Live Vertical program will guide teens to Christ, working with campus ministers and Catholic high school staff to build a structure for transformative and long-term evangelization. “I believe that our students need to personally know …

Immigration refers to people entering a country to become permanent residents, and emigration refers to people leaving their current country to become permanent residents in another. Genealogists benefit because ship passenger lists usually record these movements, and naturalization, the legal process by which an immigrant becomes a country’s citizen, also …

After recovering from a recent bad bout of COVID, I found myself reflecting on a cultural malaise that seems to have lingered since 2020: irritability. This pandemic hangover has woven itself into the fabric of our half-digital, half-physical society. Now, I was irritable as a child and vividly remember dreaming, …

Like many college freshmen, Miami University student Ben Breunig felt he didn’t fit in. Lonely, the Louisville native, raised Catholic, said he was about to leave when, on a whim, he attended Mass at St. Mary Church in Oxford. After that, everything in Breunig’s life changed. “I had never prioritized …

St. Angela Merici, foundress of the Ursuline Sisters, called upon her followers to “live for God,”  a call lived out by the students at Saint Ursula Academy (SUA) in Cincinnati. The school’s all-volunteer Campus Ministry Council assists Campus Minister Andrea Brunsman in guiding the young women to this call when …

In our current political climate, it is nearly impossible to avoid the vitriol and negativity that constantly bombard us. It’s also extremely difficult (if not impossible) to identify candidates who fully adhere to our values: Gospel values that respect all life and care, especially for the forgotten and marginalized. It …