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Oldenburg Franciscan Sisters Celebrate Jubilee
The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis will honor 8 jubilarians during a July 23rd celebration at the motherhouse in Oldenburg. Morning Prayer, the Jubilee Mass, dinner and a reception will be special events for the senior sisters. Sister Patty Campbell is being honored for 80 years in …
Kouche & Schulte McNicholas Teens Offer Time & Talents for Others
by Patricia McGeever This past Christmas, 10-year-old Colton Forsee’s life changed. A special present under the tree made it possible for him to do what other children his age get to do: ride a bike. “He immediately got on the bike in the living room and rode it down the …
Rewriting their Futures
BY EILEEN CONNELLY, OSU Combine a mother’s love, faith and commitment to her children’s future with generous donors who support the Catholic Inner-City Schools Education’s (CISE) mission, which helps rewrite urban children’s lives by providing access to a strong Catholic education. The result instilled in Ebony Webb’s five children the …
Stepping Into a New School Year
JOY! With each new school year, possibility abounds as we open our hearts and minds to the mission of Catholic education for the students, families and communities we serve. With joyful hearts, guiding faith and unwavering dedication, our teachers, school leaders and communities embrace our collective mission to Radiate Christ. …
La Salle Upperclassmen Coordinating with Matthew 25 Ministries to Serve the Less Fortunate
Did any good come out of out of the COVID-19 pandemic? From shutdowns to self-distancing, many argue there wasn’t much to be cheerful about during its height. However, rather than focus on the negatives happening in 2020, then-juniors at La Salle High School in Cincinnati created a positive initiative—a clothing …
More than Just a Game
By Kary Ellen Berger In sports and similar matchups, there is typically a winner and loser by event’s end. But in the game of life, with God as the center, everyone wins. This is evident with St. Xavier High School’s team chaplain program. The 11 team chaplains are St. Xavier …
Forming students to be servants begins in Catholic School
If you looked in St. Gertrude School’s windows on their service day last year, you would have seen elementary students bustling about the room, creating welcome cards to Afghan refugees. The reason? A partnership between Catholic schools and Catholic Charities of Southwestern Ohio (CCSWO). Mary Anne Bressler is the Parish …
Out and About in the Archdiocese for July 2023
1) Students Walk the Red Carpet DePaul Cristo Rey High School rolled out the red carpet for the premiere of The Comeback, a three-part docuseries created by students. The May 10 premiere was the culmination of months of work as students learned and embraced all facets of filmmaking from storyboarding, …
Porn Addiction: Enslaved to a Lie
Note: This article is part of an ongoing series on Pope St. John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body” (TOB). In my last articles, I explored the scourge of pornography as a prime example of the problem of “shamelessness.” I discussed how porn is omnipresent today, toxic to body and …
Global, Creative, Immersive Learning
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s definition of “immerse” is: “to plunge into something that surrounds or covers.” Students at St. Ursula Academy (SUA) see immersing themselves into local, regional and international communities as building on the holistic educational experience each student receives at the school. “As a school community, we have a …