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Angel Gowns ministry continues to grow
By Walt Schaefer For The Catholic Telegraph Cathy Diehl has a basement crammed with wedding gowns — about 100 have been donated to date. When she started her ministry, she had 10 volunteer seamstresses. Now she has 25. There were no volunteers to make deliveries or pick up donations. Now …
Archdiocesan Pastoral Council holds quarterly meeting March 7
By Steve Trosley The Catholic Telegraph The financial condition of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati continues to improve, officials told the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council March 7 at its regular quarterly meeting. Archdiocesan finances are “stable and balanced,” finance review committee member Ron Kienzle told the group. “Spending is below revenue and …
DPCR student throws first pitch at Reds game
Staff Report DePaul Cristo Rey High School in Cincinnati has been experiencing a year of firsts. The school’s first graduating class will receive diplomas May 31 (and 100 percent of them have been accepted to college). The basketball team had its first successful season. Now the school has had its …
Priests’ Personnel Office announces clergy assignments
Staff Report The Priests’ Personnel Office announced the following information regarding assignments on April 8.
Scoutmaster puts faith into practice in variety of ways
By Walt Schaefer For The Catholic Telegraph About a decade ago, Bradley Duncan was in church with his family when his infant son, Gabriel, started crying. “I was out in the lobby of the church during Mass that day trying to quiet him down and I saw a poster on …
Funeral of Purcell Marian student to be held at school
Staff Report Visitation and services for Kelsie Crow will be held in the big gym at the Eveslage Athletic Center, Purcell Marian High School on Monday, April 13 beginning at 9:30 a.m.
Lauren Hill, MSJ basketball player and DIPG advocate, dies
Staff Report The Cure Starts Now Foundation confirmed media reports early Friday that Lauren Hill, a Mount St. Joseph University freshman basketball player who suffered from a fatal brain cancer called Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glimoa, died overnight. Hill was 19.
UD identifies student hit by lightning, prayer service tonight
Staff Report The University of Dayton identified the student struck by lightning Wednesday as Sean B. Ferguson, a 23-year-old senior and marketing major from Pittsburgh, Pa. In an email to students and staff from William M. Fischer, vice president for student development, the university announced a prayer service would take …
Throwback Thursday: Once-new landmark remains a tower of faith
Staff Report Residents of Cincinnati’s West End neighborhood need only look up to see the “tower of faith” that is St. Joseph Catholic Church — the focus of today’s Throwback Thursday.