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CSW event: Superintendent serves lunch to students
Staff Report Superintendent of Catholic Schools Jim Rigg has served in many roles as a Catholic educator. He’s been a teacher, principal and professor, and to top it off he has two post-graduate degrees. Rigg took on a different role on Thursday of Catholic Schools Week at Our Lady of …
DePaul Cristo Rey set to graduate first senior class
By Walt Schaefer For The Catholic Telegraph Aaron Carter plans to study psychology or criminal justice. Mary Ann Chimusoro aims to pursue a degree in anthropology. These two seniors at DePaul Cristo Rey High School seek careers that will enable them to give back to their community because the Cincinnati …
CISE schools keep Catholic education strong in low-income neighborhoods
By Walt Schaefer For The Catholic Telegraph Inner-City Catholic Schools illustrate how education can succeed in some of Cincinnati’s less affluent neighborhoods. In the past six years, each of the eight schools operated by the Catholic Inner-City Education Fund (CISE) have shown a steady increase in enrollment largely attributed to …
CSW Profile: Fenwick experience brought Eckart back
By John Stegeman The Catholic Telegraph Even students who enjoy the high school experience typically can’t wait to leave upon graduation. For Meg Eckart, now the director of campus ministry at Bishop Fenwick High School, she felt a call to come back.
Cincinnati Catholic Schools Week Mass packs cathedral
Staff Report Representatives from Catholic schools around Cincinnati and the southern parts of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati gathered Tuesday at the Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains for the annual Catholic Schools Week Mass.
CSW Profile: High school experience nurtures vocation to priesthood
By Eileen Connelly, OSU The Catholic Telegraph As a student at Carroll High School in Dayton more than a decade ago, Father Scott Wright’s call to the priesthood was nurtured through the faith-filled example of his teachers and the values instilled by a Catholic education. Now the young priest, ordained …
CSW Profile: Lehman planted seeds of faith, service in Harrelson’s life
By John Stegeman The Catholic Telegraph The stereotype of the millennial generation conjures up images of plugged in earbuds and tuned out attitudes, but finding young men and women who dispel those myths is as easy as looking for Catholic school graduates. Will Harrelson, 28 of Troy, is a millennial. …
Lighting the Way still bearing fruit for Catholic schools
By John Stegeman The Catholic Telegraph UPDATE: The Archbishop’s Q&A videoconference with students scheduled for Jan. 26 has been cancelled as a result of school closings and delays. In 2012, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati released “Lighting the Way: A Vision for Catholic Schools.” That unified vision has continued to guide the …
Archdiocese plans to raise $130 million in new campaign
By Steve Trosley The Catholic Telegraph An historic fundraising campaign to raise $130 million will launch this month in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, and preliminary results indicate it could be a stunning success. For the official press release from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, click HERE. “Every household will be asked …
Nearly 100 in Cincinnati pray for life in solidarity with Washington march [Photos]
By John Stegeman The Catholic Telegraph As thousands, including many from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, prepared to participate in the 2015 March for Life, roughly 100 residents of the area gathered to pray outside the Planned Parenthood location on Auburn Avenue in Cincinnati. Cincinnati Young Adults for Life had promoted …