Wednesday, April 15, 2009 By Father Timothy P. Schehr Acts 4:32-35; 1 John 5:1-6; John 20:19-31 This Sunday the apostle Thomas takes his famous misstep in faith. He needs absolute proof before he will believe his brother apostles have seen the Lord. It is a disappointing stance from someone who …

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 ST. FRANCIS DE SALES DEANERY — The seventh-grade at Cardinal Pacelli School recently took recycling to a whole new level becoming the recycling center for old computers.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 HAMILTON DEANERY — Seven inmates at Lebanon Correctional Institution (LCI) north of Cincinnati were welcomed into the Catholic Church on April 12, experiencing the joy and hope of the Easter season.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 A Mass of Christian Burial for Ursuline Sister Gabriel Behler was celebrated on April 14 at the congregation’s Sacred Heart Chapel in St. Martin. Sister Gabriel, 95, died April 7 at Mount Notre Dame Health Care Center in Reading.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated for Dominican Sister Francis Winifred Schnell on April 8 in St. Catherine Chapel at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Mich. She died on April 6 at age 84. Sister Francis Winifred was in her 63rd year of religious …

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 A Mass of Christian Burial for De La Salle Christian Brother Patrick O’Brien was celebrated on April 4 at La Salle Institute in Wildwood, Mo. Brother Patrick, 71, died on March 31 in Fairhope, Ala., on his way to Florida to visit friends.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister of Charity Raphael Garcia was celebrated April 15 in the Immaculate Conception Chapel at the congregation’s motherhouse. Sister Raphael, 98, died on April 9 at Mother Margaret Hall.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 SOUTH ORANGE, N.J.  —  Benedictine Father Stanley L. Jaki, the Hungarian-born author, physicist, philosopher and theologian, died April 7 in Madrid, Spain, following a heart attack. He was 84 years old.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 By George P. Matysek Jr. BALTIMORE — Members of a Maryland Catholic parish were reeling from the tragic death of Nick Adenhart, a rookie right-handed pitcher with the Los Angeles Angels whose father, grandparents and other family members belong to the parish, St. Augustine in Williamsport.

Thursday, April 9, 2009 By Lise Alves SAO PAULO, Brazil — A high court in the Brazilian state of Para has annulled an earlier verdict which acquitted a rancher of ordering the assassination of U.S. Sister Dorothy Stang in 2005.