By Walt Schaefer For The Catholic Telegraph LaSalle High School students have discovered hair and drugs don’t mix. The archdiocesan high school of 685 students — the only school operated by the Christian Brothers in Cincinnati — has adopted the most stringent drug testing policy in the area. Only four …

Staff Report The Athenaeum of Ohio/Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation via John Carroll University for the development and delivery of a course in religion and science. The grant is for a course titled, “Only Wonder Comprehends” to be taught …

By Walt Schafer For The Catholic Telegraph A little more than 10 years ago, St. Benedict the Moor Parish, serving West Dayton, was built. It is one of only five new parish churches nationwide built from ground up with the money, elbow grease and tenacity of a largely African-American community. …

Updated Sept. 14: Pope’s speech scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Staff Report When Pope Francis becomes the first pope to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress, Cincinnatians will have a chance to witness the speech in a unique way. The 10 a.m. speech Sept. 24 will be shown live …

Staff Report For more than 150 years on the west side of Cincinnati, a parade and accompanying fair have been sure signs that fall is on the horizon. The 156th Harvest Home Parade marched through the streets of Cheviot on Thursday and many Catholic schools and parishes participated.

Staff Report In a press release distributed to local media Friday morning, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati has announced it will no longer charge for proceedings of marriage cases. Commonly called annulments, a marriage case is the tribunal process where a marriage is investigated to see if it was valid from the …

Staff Report The Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati went 11-4 in opening week of the season, and with week two in the books all but two schools have put a notch in the win column. Here are the standings through week two with week three’s opponents listed. For more information on …

Staff Report Later this month Pope Francis will visit the United States for the first time in his pontificate. Papal visits to the U.S. aren’t new, but they’re always newsworthy and Pope Francis will make history by addressing a joint session of congress. Popes have visited many major U.S. cities, …

Staff Report Less than two weeks after the announcement that Jim Rigg was stepping down as Director of Educational Services and Superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, another high-ranking schools office official has accepted a job in another diocese. Chris Pastura, Assistant Superintendent and Director of School Strategic …

By John Stegeman The Catholic Telegraph With the issuing of two documents Tuesday morning, Pope Francis announced several changes in the church’s procedure for issuing declarations of nullity pertaining to marriages. No official English translation of the motu proprios has been made available at this time, but various Vatican correspondents …