Sacred Heart in New Carlisle hosts trap shoot event
By Sarah Anne Carter For The Catholic Telegraph While searching for ideas for a parish get-together, one member of Sacred Heart in New Carlisle found the perfect fit out in the woods. The parish hosted a trap shoot Nov. 8, and about 35 parishioners attended, along with Father Ken Hummel, …
Paul VI was right to warn against contraception, Pope Francis says
CNA/EWTN News Pope Francis took the opportunity during an address to families in the Philippines to praise Blessed Pope Paul VI’s encyclical opposing contraception and affirming Church teaching on sexuality and human life. The Pope spoke Friday to families gathered at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila during his …
Map shows adoration locations in archdiocese

By John Stegeman The Catholic Telegraph Various resources exist on The Catholic Telegraph and Archdiocese of Cincinnati websites to help the faithful find Mass times and confession availability, but until this week another key resource had gone dark. Wayne Topp, associate vocation director for the archdiocese, created a database of …
Pope says respect for religion should limit freedom of expression
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Commenting on recent killings by Islamist terrorists at a Paris newspaper, Pope Francis condemned killing in the name of God, but said freedom of expression should be limited by respect for religion and that …
Throwback Thursday: The more things change

Staff Report For today’s Throwback Thursday, the staff shares editorial cartoons from three different decades of The Catholic Telegraph-Register highlighting issues important to the church that now, decades later, are still very much front and center. These cartoons show that the more things change in the culture around us, the …
Nebraska monsignor appointed new Bishop of Grand Island
CNA/EWTN News Pope Francis on Wednesday appointed Monsignor Joseph Hanefeldt, a priest of the Omaha archdiocese and a Nebraska native, as the eighth Bishop of Grand Island, which serves Catholics in central and western Nebraska.
Waiting for the pope, Philippine family reflects on dreams, blessings
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service ANTIPOLO, Philippines — Domingueto and Olimpia Ranola are proud of their daughter, Maricel, the only one of their nine children to go to college and one of the few young people from San Isidoro Labrador Parish chosen to attend Pope Francis’ Jan. 18 meeting …
My Journey: Cursillo crucial to bishop’s faith development

Conversion isn’t always a blinding light or whispered voice that leads to major transformation. Other times it is small steps along a life of faith that lead someone closer to Christ. Auxiliary Bishop Joseph R. Binzer has led a life full of moments like the latter. Now a bishop, in …
Local Catholic attends Mass at all 82 Hamilton Co. churches
By Walt Schaefer For The Catholic Telegraph Jack Metz is a well-churched Catholic. An odyssey of his ended in November at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Walnut Hills when he attended Mass there. With that Mass, Metz has attended Masses at all 82 Catholic churches in Hamilton County. “I …
Culture of vocations begins with each of us
We enjoy watching Kitchen Nightmares, a reality program that shows TV Chef Gordon Ramsey swooping out of the sky — or an expensive SUV — to save the place from tanking. The show consists of a segment where Ramsey samples the cuisine, which is always awful, and a segment where …