October 21, 2011 SIDNEY DEANERY — More than 50 supporters of Catholic education gathered Oct. 11 at Lehman Catholic High School in Sidney to hear a presentation on the yearlong study of Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

October 21, 2011  My Dear Friends in Christ, The recession in America painfully continues, and it is heartbreaking to now see that over 46 million Americans are living at or below the poverty line.

October 21,2011 By Eileen Connelly, OSU ARCHDIOCESE — There was a time when Nathan Gordon was a young man without hope. His reality was poverty and violence on the streets of inner city Cincinnati. Angry, bitter and desperate, he made a decision that landed him in prison for felony theft …

October 21, 2011 By Patricia McGeever ARCHDIOCESE — Twelve educators from the Holy Land recently shared knowledge of their culture and classrooms with their counterparts in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and they found that even though their schools are separated by great distance and have some differences, there are also …

As a priest, Father Michael Hay is concerned with eternal mysteries. But as a fiction writer, he trained his sights on a mystery of a more mundane kind — an old-fashioned murder puzzle, British style.

October 21, 2011 A memorial Mass for Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Carita Kemble was celebrated Oct. 22 in the Immaculate Conception chapel at the congregation’s Delhi Township motherhouse. Sister Carita, 94, died Oct. 9 at Mother Margaret Hall, the nursing facility for the congregation. She was a Sister of …

October 21, 2011 A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Florence Brotzge was celebrated Oct. 11 in the motherhouse chapel. Sister Florence, 98, died Oct. 8 at Mother Margaret Hall, the nursing facility for the congregation. She was a Sister of Charity for 79 years.

October 21, 2011 A memorial Mass for Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Martha Farlow was celebrated Oct. 5 in the motherhouse chapel. Sister Martha, 91, died Sept. 27 at Mother Margaret Hall, the nursing facility for the congregation. She was a Sister of Charity for 72 years.

October 21, 2011 A Mass of Christian Burial for Franciscan Sister Sue Bradshaw was celebrated Oct. 4 at the motherhouse chapel of the Sisters of St. Francis, Oldenburg, Ind. Sister Sue, 76, died Sept. 30 at St. Clare Hall, the healthcare facility for the congregation.

October 21, 2011 By Sean Reynolds Looking back over nearly 30 years of marriage, the toughest times were always when our family was stretched thin. We were either too busy or focused on the wrong things, or both. The result? Individually, and as a family, we became emotionally fragile, brittle …