Roughly 800 priests accepted a mission from the Holy Father in January. They became Missionaries of Mercy during the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy, which runs through Nov. 20 of this year. On Ash Wednesday (Feb. 10), the majority of those missionaries gathered in Rome before Pope Francis to be …

Badin High School senior Morgan Deitschel is a finalist for the “Straight A” Scholarship, sponsored by the Anthony Munoz Foundation. “I was very surprised by this,” said Deitschel, a Fairfield resident and the daughter of Charles Deitschel and the late Diane Deitschel. “My counselor, Mrs. (Angie) Bucheit, nominated me and …

Interim Superintendent of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati Susan Gibbons announced Friday that La Salle High School Principal Thomas Luebbe would not be offered a contract for next school year. Stacy Papke was named an interim principal on Monday, replacing Luebbe immediately. Seeking to clarify confusion over the news, the La Salle High School Board of …

On Tuesday Mercy Health, a Catholic health ministry serving Ohio and Kentucky hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the grand opening of Mercy Health’s new home office in Bond Hill at 1701 Mercy Health Drive, formerly 1701 Showcase Drive. Local dignitaries and officials, including Archbishop of Cincinnati Dennis M. Schnurr and …

Newspapers, television and radio stations as well as blogs across the web are talking about Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love). The latest apostolic exhortation of Pope Francis is his second since becoming pope in 2013, following Evangelli Gaudium (Joy of the Gospel) and encyclicals Lumen Fidei (The Light of Faith) and …

IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The same mercy and patience that are essential for building a strong family must be shown to those whose families are in trouble or have broken up, Pope Francis said in his highly anticipated postsynodal apostolic exhortation. The document, “‘Amoris …

Catholics around the world celebrated Easter March 27, but the Easter season is still ongoing. For this Throwback Thursday, we invite you to re-live Holy Week and Easter at the Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains via the photo gallery below. The photos are of the Holy Thursday liturgy and foot …

According to the parade lineup posted at Findlay Market Parade, there were 191 entries in the Findlay Market Cincinnati Reds Opening Day parade April 4 that kicked off the Cincinnati Reds’ season. “The Findlay Market Parade is so much a part of Cincinnati,” said Franciscan Brother Tim Sucher, “and the friars are so much …

Although he serves as pastor for St. John and St. Lewis Parish in Portsmouth on the picturesque island of Dominica, Father Herman Sharplis has discovered a “home away from home” in Piqua, where he recently concluded a whirlwind visit with parishioners of  twinning parishes at St. Mary and St. Boniface …

The Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains in downtown Cincinnati was first built in the 1840s, but the massive bronze doors presently serving as the Holy Door for the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy were installed in 1957. Today’s Throwback Thursday is a photo of former Cincinnati Archbishop Karl J. …