From Catholic News Service and Staff Reports WASHINGTON  — The diverse coalition of faith, labor, business and civil rights activists who are trying to rework the nation’s immigration system celebrated the June 27 Senate passage of a massive reform bill.

Most Reverend Dennis M. Schnurr made the following statement about the U.S. Supreme Court decisions of June 26, 2013.  The Supreme Court’s decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act is deeply disappointing. It means that the federal law government will recognize same-sex “marriages” in states that provide for it, …

Press Release A young farm family outside Versailles welcomed Archbishop Dennis Schnurr of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, as well as Catholics from the St. Marys and Sidney Deaneries to this year’s Rural-Urban Mass, which took place Thursday, June 20.

Staff Report Openly homosexual youth will no longer be barred from the Boy Scouts, the organization decided earlier this month in a shift from long-standing policy.

Staff Report Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr notified the priests of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati today (June 21) of the following decree from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. The decree calls for the inclusion of the name of St. Joseph, spouse of the Blessed Virgin …

Staff Report “We are Catholics. We are Americans. We are proud to be both, grateful for the gift of faith which is ours as Christian disciples, and grateful for the gift of liberty which is ours as American citizens. To be Catholic and American should mean not having to choose …

Press Release The Archdiocese of Cincinnati has established an Office of the New Evangelization within the Department of Educational Services and appointed Sean Ater as its first director, starting July 1.

By Catholic News Service  WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. House June 18 passed the Pain Capable Unborn Protection Act to prohibit abortion nationwide after 20 weeks of gestation, approximately the stage at which scientists say unborn babies are capable of feeling pain. After heated debate on the floor of the …

Update: According to Cincinnati’s WKRC Local 12 news, 2 men have been arrested in connection with the spray painting vandalism on St. William Catholic Church earlier this month.  By Megan Walsh The Catholic Telegraph  Late Saturday night, St. William Catholic Church was vandalized with red spray paint. The front of …

By John Stegeman The Catholic Telegraph Father’s Day is a secular holiday, but like its counterpart in Mother’s Day it is a day to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for the gift of our earthly parents. Read More About Fathers Dreams of a Father: My hope for my soon-to-be-born …