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Staff Report With a detailed explanation of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati’s “The Light is ON For You” campaign, the famous annual Fish Fry listings, a photo recap of the March for Life and the usual mix of local news and commentary, the March print edition of The Catholic Telegraph will …

Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr presided at last year's Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion Feb. 17, 2013 at Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church, Dayton. (CT Photo/Jeff Unroe)
Press Release On Sunday, March 9, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati will celebrate the Rite of Election and the Call to Continuing Conversion with 946 adults and children seeking entrance into the Roman Catholic Church.

Archbishop Emeritus Daniel E. Pilarczyk blesses religious sisters gathered at the World Day for Consecrated Life on Feb. 2. (CT Photo/Colleen Kelley)
Staff Report For many years now in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, the Little Sisters of the Poor have invited women religious in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky to come together at the their home to celebrate World Day for Consecrated Life on Feb. 2. This year, Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr presided …

Staff Report One of the most talked about topics of the day — same-sex marriage — is the focus of the Feb. 12 LeBlond Series lecture at The Athenaeum of Ohio/Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West. Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki, of the Diocese of Springfield, Ill., will present “Marriage, …

By Eileen Connelly, OSU The Catholic Telegraph When John Fink retired after more than 40 years as an educator and school/district administrator, he found himself facing an unexpected challenge: how to fill his free time in a meaningful way. “I was used to being constantly busy,” said Fink, and while …

By Lisa Biedenbach For The Catholic Telegraph It’s all about kids when you talk with Annie Timmons. She lives and breathes kids and works and plays with kids to help them thrive at school and in everyday life and become the adults that God means them to be. Timmons, executor …

Press Release Deacon candidates for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati will be installed to the ministry of Lector Feb. 16, at 10 a.m. by Bishop Roger J. Foys at St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington, Ky. 

By John Stegeman The Catholic Telegraph As initially reported in the December 2013 edition of The Catholic Telegraph, the youth evangelization organization NET Ministries will be opening its first regional office in the United States in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in July.

Chaminade Julienne President Dan Meixner announces the LIFT (Leading in Faith Today) initiative Thursday Jan. 30, 2014. LIFT is a $20 million improvement and renovation campaign for the school. Chaminade Julienne also announced it has already raised $13.4 million. (CT Photo/John Stegeman)
By John Stegeman The Catholic Telegraph DAYTON — If Catholic Schools Week is supposed to be a chance for Catholic schools to shine,  Chaminade Julienne High School in Dayton spared no effort Thursday night. With alumni, staff, media and members of the school’s founding orders in attendance, the school announced …

By Patricia McGeever For The Catholic Telegraph Catholic grade schools that want to boost their enrollments can take a page out of the lesson book used by St. Clement in St. Bernard. For years, the school on Vine Street was in danger of closing as attendance dwindled. But slowly and …