More than 1,000 prepare to enter church at Easter Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion celebrations Feb. 21 marked the start of final preparations for 1,049 people who are planning to join the church at Easter. The celebrations were held in Dayton and Cincinnati. During the celebrations, sponsors …

ARCHDIOCESE — The faith and gifts of Asian Catholics were celebrated Oct. 24 during the the 2010 World Mission Sunday Mass held locally at St. John the Evangelist Church in Deer Park.Approximately 350 people gathered for the celebration, sponsored by the archdiocesan Mission Office and many local Asian groups. Among …

Nov. 17, 2010 A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Beatrice Hundt was celebrated Nov. 12 in the Immaculate Conception Chapel at the congregation’s Delhi Township motherhouse. Sister Beatrice, 90, died Nov. 5 at Mother Margaret Hall.   A native of Lansing, Sister Beatrice was a …

Nov. 17, 2010 A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Mary Rosaire Stadtmiller was celebrated Nov. 15 in the Immaculate Conception Chapel at the congregation’s Delhi Township motherhouse. Sister Mary Rosaire, 94, died Nov. 7 at Mother Margaret Hall.  A Cincinnati native, Sister Mary Rosaire graduated …

Nov. 17, 2010 By Terrance Callan  Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: Malachi 3:19-20a; 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12; Luke 21: 5-19 There are times when such things as the prospect of nuclear proliferation, terrorist threats or ecological disasters cause us to think about the end of this world. But most of the …

By Terrance Callan  Our Lord Jesus Christ the King: 2 Samuel 5:1-3; Colossians 1:12-20; Luke 23: 35-43 The idea that Christ is king may be more meaningful to people who live in a monarchy than it is to us in the United States. Our country was established by a revolution …

Nov. 12, 2010   By David Eck HAMILTON DEANERY —Members of Holy Name Parish in Trenton hit the city’s streets Oct. 2 to spread the good news and raise awareness of the Catholic presence in the Butler County town. About a dozen parishioners and Holy Name pastor Father Thomas McCarthy …

Nov. 12, 2010   By David Eck ARCHDIOCESE — A recent survey of Americans showing that atheists, agnostics and Jews know more about religion than practicing Christians should serve as a wake-up call for the church, Catholic leaders in the Cincinnati archdiocese say.

A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister of the Precious Blood M. Leonides Piekenbrock was celebrated at Salem Heights Oct. 22. Sister M. Leonides, 92, died Oct. 19 at the Maria Joseph Center in Dayton. She was a Sister of the Precious Blood for 71 years. A native of St. …

By David Eck ST. ANDREW DEANERY —Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez  Maradiaga visited Good Shepherd Parish in Montgomery Nov. 4 as part of the faith community’s commitment to establish a parish and to help build a bi-lingual school in Honduras. The cardinal celebrated Mass, spoke about the conditions in his country …