From the Archives | Michelle Smith Marianne Reilly’s journals span more than sixty years. When you open them, you do not find history in bold strokes, but rather weather reports and grocery accounts, social calls and parish news, copied poems and notes of illness, careful records of correspondence and the …

Marriage and the Permanent Diaconate by Matt Hess Many Families of Parishes in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati see a permanent deacon at Mass, especially on the weekend. A 2023 survey by the archdiocese reported that there were nearly 200 permanent deacons in our 19 counties in Southwestern Ohio. And, well …

From the Archives | Michelle Smith What remains of Archbishop John Baptist Purcell’s life survives in fragments of brittle letters, handwritten ledgers, and the early pages of The Catholic Telegraph. Gathered together, they reveal not just a figure from the past, but a man constantly at work: writing, building, teaching, …

by Patricia McGeever When Fr. Deva Kuma says Mass at his 14 remote mission stations in India, he wears vestments made by volunteer seamstresses living here in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. “From the bottom of my heart, I thank you so much for your Mass vestments,” he wrote, expressing his …

The Final Word | Belle Grubert Living stones are formed and shaped to be used. If rocks can be used by humanity to create gorgeous cathedrals, how much more can we, made in the image and likeness of our Creator, be used by Him for the upbuilding of His Church, …

Christian Anthropology | Andrew J. Sodergren, M.T.S., Psy.D. Note: This article is part of an ongoing series on Pope St. John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body” (TOB). In his meditations on Ephesians 5, Pope St. John Paul II highlighted the two distinct images St. Paul uses to describe the …

Catholic At Home | Katie Sciba  “Do you know the Litany of St. Joseph? Have you prayed it?” This is how I answered an incoming call from a priest friend. I was in the process of reading Fr. Don Calloway’s Consecration to St. Joseph and felt as though the included …

At the Sunday Angelus, Pope Leo invites the 15,000 pilgrims gathered in St Peter’s Square to pray that “the roar of bombs might cease, that weapons might fall silent, and that a space for dialogue might open, in which the voice of the peoples may be heard.” Vatican News After …

by Dominick Albano I’d rather have one pair of hands put to work than a million pairs of hands clasped in prayer. Driving to school over twenty years ago, I read that bumper sticker on the car in front of me, and I’ve never forgotten it. The message felt more …

It’s Saturday, and I don’t know about you, but there’s a lot of chores to get done today. I haven’t figured out when I’m going to Mass. Looking at the calendar, it’s already the third Sunday of Lent, and I haven’t started. I can’t remember what I gave up. My …