40 Days for Life Kickoff Rally with Father Ethan Moore

40 Days for Life Kickoff Rally with Father Ethan Moore Sunday, February 14th at 2:00pm Holy Name Church, 2422 Auburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45219 The kickoff to the spring/Lenten campaign is Sunday, February 14. Join Fr. Ethan Moore, pastor of Holy Name Church. Come for song, prayer, inspiration and all …
AOC Bicentennial: missionaries of the precious blood

Catholic life in Mercer, Auglaize and Shelby counties is inseparable from its German heritage and the Missionaries of the Precious Blood, both of which continue to leave their mark on the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches. During the episcopacy of Archbishop John B. Purcell (1833-1883), the archdiocese saw a massive …
Editor’s Note : Beauty is the Artist’s Vocation

“None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of His hands. A glimmer of that feeling has shone so often in your eyes when — like the …
National Marriage Week USA and World Marriage Day to be Celebrated February 7-14

WASHINGTON— Each year, National Marriage Week USA and World Marriage Day provide an opportunity for the Catholic Church to focus on building a culture of life and love that begins with supporting and promoting marriage and the family. This year, National Marriage Week USA will be celebrated February 7-14 and …
Archdiocese of Chicago to court: Let parishes choose their staff

Washington D.C., Feb 10, 2021 / 04:00 am MT (CNA).- Attorneys for the Archdiocese of Chicago argued before the Seventh Circuit on Tuesday that parishes should be free to choose church leaders without government interference. In the case of Demkovich v. St. Andrew the Apostle Parish, the former music director …
Seek the Lord by Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr

“In order to communicate the message entrusted to her by Christ, the Church needs art,” St. Pope John Paul II writes in his Letter to Artists, issued on Easter Sunday, 1999. As you will read in this issue of The Catholic Telegraph, art and beauty have a unique power to …
Miami archbishop commends heroism of Catholic FBI agent killed in the line of duty

Miami, Fla., Feb 9, 2021 / 07:01 pm MT (CNA).- Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami offered a moving funeral homily last week commending Laura Schwartzenberger, an FBI agent who was killed while pursuing a child pornography investigation. The funeral Mass was celebrated Feb. 6, four days after FBI Special Agent …
Busca Al Senor Arzobispo Dennis M. Schnurr

“Para comunicar el mensaje que Cristo le ha confiado, la Iglesia necesita arte”, escribe San Juan Pablo II en su Carta a los Artistas, emitida el Domingo de Pascua de 1999. Como leerán en este número de The Catholic Telegraph, el arte y la belleza tienen un poder único para …
February 10: St. Scholastica

On Feb. 10, the Catholic Church remembers St. Scholastica, a nun who was the twin sister of St. Benedict, the “father of monasticism” in Western Europe. The siblings were born around 480 to a Roman noble family in Nursia, Italy. Scholastica seems to have devoted herself to God from her …
Obituary: Reverend Edward G. Trippel

Reverend Edward G. Trippel passed away on February 7, 2021 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was born in Cincinnati on March 4, 1928. He did his preparatory studies at St. Gregory Seminary and studied theology at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West, Norwood, Ohio. He was ordained on May 28, …