Wednesday, October 7, 2009 ARCHDIOCESE — In recent years, the church’s pastoral attention has been as focused on the East as it has on the West. Around the turn of this current century, the Vatican began gearing up for a new missionary push in Asia. While the Bible has fully or …

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 By David Eck DAYTON DEANERY — In 1834 Maria Anna Brunner, an elderly widow in Switzerland inspired by the redemption, reparation and reconciliation through the Precious Blood of Jesus, began spending her time in prayer, taking care of the men in a seminary started by her …

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 1764: Maria Anna Probst born 1793: Maria Anna Probst marries John Baptist Brunner

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 By Father Timothy Schehr 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Wisdom 7:7-11; Hebrews 4:12-13; Gospel Mark 10:17-30 or 10:17-27. What do we want most from God? In the first reading for this Sunday King Solomon has an answer that question: he prays for wisdom. What he means …

Monday, October 5, 2009 By Dean Preston COLUMBUS — I’m Catholic, and I’m in prison. I converted to Catholicism in prison and was baptized just over a year ago. Before this, I was lost in contradiction and depression, and although I didn’t formally call myself this, I was militantly anti-Catholic. …

Friday, October 2, 2009 MILWAUKEE — Project Rachel, the post-abortion reconciliation ministry of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, has been healing hearts of those affected by abortion since 1984.

Friday, October 2, 2009 ARCHDIOCESE — A Catholic woman from the Cincinnati area, Carole Adlard, has been named a 2009 Angel in Adoption for her outstanding advocacy of adoption issues. The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI), which orchestrates the Angels in Adoption program, honored Adlard along with more than …

Thursday, October 1, 2009 CATHEDRAL DEANERY — St. Monica-St. George Parish Newman Center is sponsoring a year of events devoted to writer, activist and Trappist Monk Thomas Merton.

Thursday, October 1, 2009 By Mike Dyer ST. FRANCIS DE SALES DEANERY — Mary Bridges stood in the front of the undercroft at St. Mary Parish in Hyde Park with a microphone in hand and spoke candidly to the audience about the struggle she had endured to remain in her …

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 ARCHDIOCESE — Some 5,000 Catholic educators from Ohio are expected be in attendance at the Ohio Catholic Education Association (OCEA) Convention Oct. 8-9 at the Duke Energy Center.