by Gail Finke Origins St. Lawrence Church in Price Hill began as a parish for German immigrants, who hired one of the most popular German-born church architects in America to design the immense and elaborate Gothic building. Parishioners worshiped in a basement area they called “the catacombs” while the church …

The Dignity of Dependence By Leah Libresco Sargeant | University of Notre Dame Press, 2025 | 232 pages | $28.00. In his inauguration speech as mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani declared, “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” This dichotomy is not …

I played basketball and baseball in early grade school. I was never that great at either, but I learned a lot about what it means to be on a team and how to be a good teammate. My first lesson, however, simply moved me from standing alone to belonging.  I …

The Saintly Seven: Black Catholics on the Path to Sainthood Mary Anne Bressler The Saintly Seven Were you aware that there are seven African American candidates for canonization? The lives of these holy men and women span nearly the entire existence of the United States as an independent nation—from Pierre …

From the Archives | Michelle Smith Marianne Reilly’s journals span more than sixty years. When you open them, you do not find history in bold strokes, but rather weather reports and grocery accounts, social calls and parish news, copied poems and notes of illness, careful records of correspondence and the …

From the Archives | Michelle Smith What remains of Archbishop John Baptist Purcell’s life survives in fragments of brittle letters, handwritten ledgers, and the early pages of The Catholic Telegraph. Gathered together, they reveal not just a figure from the past, but a man constantly at work: writing, building, teaching, …

by Patricia McGeever When Fr. Deva Kuma says Mass at his 14 remote mission stations in India, he wears vestments made by volunteer seamstresses living here in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. “From the bottom of my heart, I thank you so much for your Mass vestments,” he wrote, expressing his …

The Final Word | Belle Grubert Living stones are formed and shaped to be used. If rocks can be used by humanity to create gorgeous cathedrals, how much more can we, made in the image and likeness of our Creator, be used by Him for the upbuilding of His Church, …

Christian Anthropology | Andrew J. Sodergren, M.T.S., Psy.D. Note: This article is part of an ongoing series on Pope St. John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body” (TOB). In his meditations on Ephesians 5, Pope St. John Paul II highlighted the two distinct images St. Paul uses to describe the …

Christian Anthropology | Andrew J. Sodergren, M.T.S., Psy.D. Note: This article is part of an ongoing series on Pope St. John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body.” We have been unpacking Pope St. John Paul II’s meditations of Ephesians 5, in which the late pope emphasizes the “mutual submission” of …