By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Aug 10, 2025 / 06:00 am While many know him best for his popular “Bible in a Year” podcast, Ascension videos, and inspiring talks he gives across the country, Father Mike Schmitz is first and foremost the chaplain at the Newman Center at the University …

Live Vertical, a campus ministry focusing on guided adoration, has made its way into three schools within the Archdiocese of Cincinnati: Archbishop Elder High School (Cincinnati), Bishop Fenwick High School (Franklin), and Archbishop Carroll High School (Dayton). “The mission of Live Vertical is very relational,” said Father Jacob DuMont, archdiocesan …

By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Apr 17, 2025 / 15:31 pm Catholic students at Florida State University have been praying and assisting their fellow Seminoles amid a deadly mass shooting at the campus on Thursday, a ministry leader there told CNA. As of early Thursday evening two people had died and …

Walk into a Sunday night Candlelight Mass at St. Monica- St. George Church in Cincinnati, and you know you are a part of something special. As the light flickers across the adorned walls, and contemporary praise and worship music reverberate throughout the almost 100-year- old church, you find both parishioners …

The Catholic campus ministry program at Wright State University (WSU), Raider Catholic, understands that college is the time in a young adult’s life when they are most willing to challenge their own worldview and pursue truth. “I think something particularly beautiful about college students is that they are usually searching …

Like many college freshmen, Miami University student Ben Breunig felt he didn’t fit in. Lonely, the Louisville native, raised Catholic, said he was about to leave when, on a whim, he attended Mass at St. Mary Church in Oxford. After that, everything in Breunig’s life changed. “I had never prioritized …

Most graduating high school seniors don’t expect to be back at their alma mater anytime soon. That was not the case for Michaele “Mickey” Townsend, a 2018 graduate of DePaul Cristo Rey High School (DPCR) in Cincinnati, who returned to her alma mater to serve as the new Campus Minister. …

by Lisa Fletcher Providing a strong foundation for students to know and love the Catholic faith is at the heart of Catholic education in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Simply having the knowledge, however, isn’t enough. Without meaningful ways to consistently practice the faith, students miss a crucial component in developing …

Sharing the Good News of our faith may seem an easy concept, but it doesn’t always come to fruition. That’s why the Catholic Ministries Appeal (CMA) reserves funds to aid evangelization. “Embracing evangelization in our archdiocese and beyond, in our parishes and through ministries like those supported by the Catholic …

by Joe Bukuras Washington D.C., Aug 31, 2021 / 11:04 am The Harvard Catholic Center on Monday clarified reports of the university’s new atheist “chief chaplain,” saying the position is administrative and will not affect the center’s Catholic mission. Last week the New York Times announced that Greg Epstein, an …