Today’s Video: Lent Preparation what to give up for Lent.
In Today’s Video: Father Mike knows the tricks we can play on ourselves when it comes to picking something for Lent. So he gives a straightforward guideline: Don’t pick something that’s arbitrary. Pick something that is necessary.
Today’s Video: The Why’s of Lent
Here’s a great video for the family and a quick primer of why we celebrated Ash Wednesday a few days ago and why we celebrate this sacred season of Lent.
Virgil Dechant, past supreme knight of Knights of Columbus, dies at 89
IMAGE: CNS photo/Knights of Columbus By LEAWOOD, Kan. (CNS) — Virgil C. Dechant, the longest-serving supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, holding the office from 1977 to 2000, died in his sleep Feb. 15 in his hometown of Leawood. He was 89. "God has called home a good man …
New Director of Cemeteries
Thomas Jordan has been hired as the new Director of Cemeteries at Gate of Heaven and Calvary Cemeteries in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Mr. Jordan is a member of the Catholic Cemetery Conference (CCC) and arrives at the Archdiocese of Cincinnati after more than ten years managing Our Lady Queen …
Raphael’s tapestries briefly return to Sistine Chapel
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Vatican Museums By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — An artistic masterpiece conceived by the Renaissance master Raphael was on display for one week in the Sistine Chapel to help celebrate the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death. "It’s an important moment" and a way to celebrate …
Raphael’s tapestries briefly return to Sistine Chapel
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Vatican Museums By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — An artistic masterpiece conceived by the Renaissance master Raphael was on display for one week in the Sistine Chapel to help celebrate the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death. "It’s an important moment" and a way to celebrate …
Did you know? A Saint may have visited the Archdiocese of Cincinnati
by Gail Finke Mother Frances: Sainthood to come? 1868 Mother Frances visits Cincinnati + Covington 1934 Mother Frances declared Venerable 1972 Healing of Covington,KY, resident William Anness ruled not miraculous 1974 Venerable Frances is beatified 1989 Inexplicable healing of Cincinnati resident Thomas Siemers 2008 The cause for Ven. Frances’s canonization …
CISE Graduate Discerns Priesthood
by Joe Bride In almost 40 years of existence the Catholic Inner-city Schools Education Fund (CISE) has produced graduates who touch every facet of life in the Cincinnati area. Tony Losekamp is one special example. He is attending Mount St. Mary’s Seminary & School of Theology in Cincinnati and was …
UD’s Virtual Learning Program Goes Global: Wealth of Online Courses Makes Catechesis Accessible Anywhere
by John LeComte Pope Saint John Paul II ‘s Apostolic Letter for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, Novo Millennio Ineunte, in which he called the Church to “put out into the deep” (Lk 5:4) was the inspiration for founding the University of Dayton’s Virtual Learning Community for Faith …
Editor’s Note: Online Faith Sharing
I often look around my life, full of busy (and sometimes overwhelming) children, stacks of homework, barking dogs, dirty dishes, mountains of laundry and the never-ending grocery list and wonder how I’m even going to power through the day-to-day activities and take care of my own prayer life, let alone …
