Bucket List for September

This month’s Bucket List takes you to two very different places for quiet fall hikes, and to the archdiocese’s only parish founded by Lithuanian immigrants: stroll St. Joseph New Cemetery’ s 163 acres spend time in contemplative Jesuit prayer in Milford worship at an Old North Dayton parish Go: …
Cardinal Bo slams Myanmar military for brutality in Kachin
IMAGE: CNS photo/Seng Mai, EPA By MANDALAY, Myanmar (CNS) — Myanmar’s military continues to persecute ethnic Kachin, the predominant Christian group in a conflict-torn part of the country, as well as Rohingya Muslims, said Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon, Myanmar. Speaking Sept. 1 at a peace forum in South …
Lucky there’s a ‘Catholic Guy’: Radio host taps into male zeitgeist
IMAGE: CNS photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit By Jonathan Liedl MINNEAPOLIS (CNS) — Lino Rulli doesn’t have any children of his own. Married two years ago, the 46-year-old and his wife, Jill, are hoping that changes soon. But the Minnesota native and Catholic media personality is already the pater familias …
Don’t touch that dial: Catholic radio station seeks to own drive time

By Gail Finke Sacred Heart Catholic Radio wants to be your go-to station for drive time, beginning Sept. 4. As area workers and students settle into their fall routine after Labor Day weekend, Sacred Heart Radio will launch “Driving Home the Faith,” a 4-6 p.m. program hosted by …
Jesuit priest and school president offers prayers at McCain memorials
IMAGE: CNS photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool via Reuters By WASHINGTON (CNS) — Jesuit Father Edward Reese, the president of St. Ignatius Prep School in San Francisco, offered prayers in both Phoenix and Washington, including a homily at the National Cathedral in Washington, after the death of John McCain, the senator …
Cardinal Wuerl addresses church’s ‘pain, confusion and disillusionment’
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic Standard By Mark Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — Addressing the clergy abuse crisis in the church will require “wider lay engagement, more realized accountability and evident transparency,” said Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl at the end of a Sept. 2 Mass in Washington. In remarks after …
Silence is Christ’s response to lies, divisiveness, pope says at Mass
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Jesus himself showed that the best way to respond to scandal and divisiveness is to stay silent and pray, Pope Francis said Sept. 3 as he resumed his early morning Masses with invited guests. “With people lacking good will, with people who seek …
Friday September 14: Day of prayer for the church and victims of abuse in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati

DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH AND VICTIMS OF ABUSE FEAST OF THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS SCHEDULE OF PRAYER Friday, September 14, 2018 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will take place throughout the day except during the celebration of Mass. St. Peter in Chains Cathedral 325 West 8th …
Pope: Pray, act to protect clean water, guarantee access to it
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Water is a gift of God that makes life possible and yet millions of people do not have access to safe drinking water, and rivers, seas and oceans continue to be polluted, Pope Francis said. “Care for water sources and water basins is …
Former nuncio now says sanctions against McCarrick were ‘private’
By Cindy Wooden ROME (CNS) — Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former nuncio to the United States who called on Pope Francis to resign for allegedly lifting sanctions placed on Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, now says those “sanctions” were “private” and neither he nor now-retired Pope Benedict XVI ever was …