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Making Catholic Memories: St. Joseph Cream Puffs
When we first started having children and began discussing names, we always seemed to lean towards family names for the middle name. By the time our third came along, we began to focus on choosing saints names. It seems slightly embarrassing to admit it, but it wasn’t until we were …
A Place of Support; A Place of Hope
As I write this, my son lies next to me in his bassinet, just 13 days old. A first-time mom, I learned over the past nine months just how much preparation is necessary for a family to welcome a new and precious, little life into their world. There have been …
Worship Through Adoration and Music
God is good. God is real. God is not boring. He is worthy of our praise and our worship. But what is worship? As the Oxford Dictionary says, worship is “the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity.” As a cradle Catholic, I could give a similar …
Archdiocese of Cincinnati’s History with Mother Cabrini
The new Cabrini movie is taking the world by storm, with rave reviews from the secular and Catholic worlds alike. The biopic depicts Mother Cabrini’s move from Italy to New York, where she’s sent to assist the underserved Italian immigrant community. The moving film shows her work to provide orphanages …
Spiritual Centers: Jesuit Spiritual Center at Milford.
Jesuit Spiritual Center at Milford 5361 S. Milford Rd., Milford, 45150 | jesuitspiritualcenter.com Guided by the mission to accompany individuals into a deeper relationship with God, the Jesuit Spiritual Center (JSC) offers transformative retreat experiences rooted in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. For almost a century, the …
Making Sense of the U.S. Census
“In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirin’ius was governor of Syria. And all went to be enrolled, each to his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of …
The Use and Abuse of Science and Technology
In 1992, British novelist P.D. James departed from her usual genre of detective fiction to write a dystopian novel about the growing prevalence of what Pope St. John II later called “the culture of death.” This culture, wrote John Paul in the 1995 encyclical, Evangelium Vitae, is “fostered by powerful …
Where Faith and Science Meet in the CLassroom
Many young people have left the Catholic Church or, at the very least, find themselves questioning their beliefs over perceived contradictions between the faith and science. At Moeller High School, a science and religion teacher joined forces to address this perceived problem. Sean Leugers, a science teacher at Moeller, was …
Somewhere it Hides A Well
Author Angie Kim shares that she was inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s famous book, The Little Prince, when she was a child in Seoul, Korea. Her attention riveted on these lines: “One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs and …
Making Space for Faith and Science at Roger Bacon
by Lisa Fletcher Preparing to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2027, Roger Bacon Catholic High School looks toward the future. With more than 520 students, the Cincinnati coed high school is preparing for the next century through its We are the Good Soil Capital Campaign, which includes a new atrium …