Friday, May 28, 2010 By Mary Caffrey Knapke HAMILTON DEANERY — Although all parents want their children to be safe, not every parent knows what steps to take when kids spend time online. To help address these concerns, John XXIII Catholic Elementary School in Middletown recently hosted a seminar on …

Thursday, May 27, 2010 ST. FRANCIS DE SALES DEANERY — The Athenaeum of Ohio/Mount St. Mary’s Seminary has launched a $15.75 million capital campaign to help the school maintain and improve its excellence for the next decade. The campaign, with its theme “Investing in Our Future — Preserving Our Legacy,” …

Thursday, May 27, 2010 By David Eck ST. MARGARET MARY DEANERY — Like most schools, Roger Bacon High School fields teams in such popular sports as football and basketball, but a group of students also play a somewhat unique sport: underwater hockey. About 20-25 students each year participate in the …

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 ARCHDIOCESE — The Priests’ Personnel Office announces that Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr has made the following appointments, effective this summer unless otherwise noted:

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 ST. LAWRENCE DEANERY — St. William and St. Teresa of Avila parishes will celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi with a prayer service and procession on Sunday, June 6. The celebration begins with a prayer service at St. Teresa at 2 p.m., followed by a procession …

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 By Mike Dyer ST. MARGARET MARY DEANERY — To say Jim Redden has a lot going for him these days would certainly be an understatement. Redden, 23, graduated from the University of Notre Dame on May 16 and will soon be working as a chemical engineer for …

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 ARCHDIOCESE — Hundreds gathered at the Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains on May 23 for a Mass at which Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr ordained two men to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. The archbishop ordained Father Robert Muhlenkamp, 28, from Holy Trinity Parish in …

By Gery L. Deer DAYTON DEANERY — With a death toll estimated near 230,000, the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that hit the Caribbean nation of Haiti on Jan. 12th is one of the worst natural disasters in history. Five months later, even in the capitol city of Port-au-Prince, thousands are still …

By David Eck DAYTON DEANERY — When Romeo Kwihangana entered Chaminade-Julienne High School in the fall of 2006 he had been in the United States for only a few months and had difficulty speaking English.

 By Eileen Connelly, OSU ARCHDIOCESE — The archdiocese is blessed with many architectural treasures among the Catholic churches that stand in area neighborhoods as a testament to our faith.  A number of these magnificent structures were designed by the late Cincinnati architect, Edward Schulte, whose contributions and legacy were recognized …