Today’s Video: Busy Is Not A Virtue
So often we measure the worth of our day based on how busy we were. As disciples of Christ, it’s not about being busy, it’s about being busy with the mission.
Museum of the Bible receives grants for big exhibit on science and faith
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By Jacob Comello WASHINGTON (CNS) — From the 17th-century ban by the Vatican of Copernicus’ mathematical calculation that the sun was at the center of the solar system to modern-day arguments about evolution’s compatibility with a belief in God, science and faith have regularly butted heads …
Nation has gone down ‘dark road,’ needs ‘light of Christ,’ says bishop
IMAGE: CNS photo/Michael Mickle, The Catholic Virginian By Joseph Staniunas RICHMOND, Va. (CNS) — An estimated 7,000 people, including busloads from the Richmond and Arlington dioceses, converged on the state Capitol April 3 in Richmond for the first Virginia March for Life. On a cool, sunny day, schoolchildren, college students, …
Masses planned for those grieving loss of unborn child
Healing Masses for those grieving the loss of an unborn child, including to miscarriage, stillbirth and abortion, are scheduled for April 29 at 7 p.m., at four locations in the archdiocese. The Masses will be held at St. Ignatius Loyola Parish 5222 North Bend Rd. Cincinnati, 45247 St. Veronica Parish …
Pope asks anti-trafficking nun to write Way of Cross meditations
IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has asked an Italian nun, who has been on the frontlines in the fight against human trafficking, to write this year’s Way of the Cross meditations. Consolata Sister Eugenia Bonetti, 80, will prepare the texts for the …
To help Syrian refugees, get to roots of war, Melkite archbishop tells EU
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Melkite Catholic diocese of Furzol, Zahle and the Bekaa in Lebanon By BRUSSELS (CNS) — Aside from humanitarian assistance for Syrian refugees and concrete efforts to help them return to their homeland, the international community should work toward eradicating the roots of wars and violence, an archbishop …
LEHMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL JOINING NEW ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
LCHS will joins seven schools in the region to form new conference starting in the Fall of 2021. Sidney, Ohio | April 2, 2019—Lehman Catholic High School (LCHS) is excited to announce they will be joining a new athletic conference in the Fall of 2021. Yesterday afternoon LCHS met with …
Throwback Thursday: A unique Stations of the Cross at La Salle High School
Throughout Lent, many will participate in the Stations of the Cross throughout the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. The stations grew out of pilgrims travelling to Jerusalem and walking the Via Dolorosa to Calvary. In Today’s Throwback Thursday, last spring La Salle High School football players continued that tradition in a very …
Atlanta’s Wilton Gregory named archbishop of Washington, D.C
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Pope Francis has named Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta as the new archbishop of Washington. The appointment was announced April 4 in Washington by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the Vatican nuncio to the United States. Archbishop Gregory, 71, a former president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic …
Honoring saints can heal body, soul, says priest leading relics tour
IMAGE: CNS photo/Ed Koskey Jr., The Catholic Spirit By Anthony Salamone MIDDLESEX, N.J. (CNS) — Father Carlos Martins preaches that for Catholics to reach heaven, they must possess forgiving hearts, participate in the sacraments and live their Christian identities to the fullest. The priest, a member of the Companions of …