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Montessori program at The Summit celebrates 50 years
By Eileen Connelly, OSU The Catholic Telegraph Great moments happen every day in The Summit Country Day School’s Montessori program. In classrooms designed for Montessori teaching, materials are carefully displayed to optimize learning, independence and curiosity and ignite the creativity of the youngest Summit students. Montessori-trained teachers recognize the potential …
Two women discern same order as strangers, enter as sisters
By Megan Walsh The Catholic Telegraph Two Cincinnati women will become sisters in the same religious order in Ann Arbor, Mich., when they enter the community in August.
Last Sister of Charity retires from St. William School
By Eileen Connelly, OSU The Catholic Telegraph “It was a blessing and an adventure.” That’s how Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Helen Attenweiler describes her educational ministry, which spanned 56 years. Thirty-seven of those years were spent at St. William School in Price Hill, where the members of her religious community …
St. Boniface celebrates 150 years
By Patricia McGeever For The Catholic Telegraph When you’ve been a constant and comforting presence in a community for 150 years, a tall celebration is in order. That’s exactly what is happening at St. Boniface Parish in Northside.
Su Casa, 5 individuals win Sister Stang Award
By John Stegeman & Eileen Connelly, OSU The Catholic Telegraph Named for a modern-day martyr, the Spirit of Sister Dorothy Stang Award is given to those in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati who exemplify love of the poor, and love of the Earth as Sister Dorothy did.
Changes made to Decree on Child Protection
By Steve Trosley The Catholic Telegraph A planned review of the archdiocesan Decree on Child Protection has brought several changes in definitions and process policies this month. Safe Environment Coordinator for Children and Youth Tom Coz said the definitions were inserted in the decree to clarify what constitutes child pornography and …
Parishes face challenges, rewards as pastoral regions form
Editor’s Note: This is the third and final in a multi-part series on pastoral regions, an ongoing effort to mitigate the decline in the number of available priests for assignments as pastors on the parishes of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. By Eileen Connelly, OSU The Catholic Telegraph Pastors and members …
Catholic School grads form web development company
By John Stegeman The Catholic Telegraph Are you the managing director of your own company yet? Mike Letscher is, and he graduated from St. Xavier High School just last month.
Senate passes immigration bill; action praised locally
From Catholic News Service and Staff Reports WASHINGTON — The diverse coalition of faith, labor, business and civil rights activists who are trying to rework the nation’s immigration system celebrated the June 27 Senate passage of a massive reform bill.
Archbishop Schnurr: While High Court decisions disappointing, neither requires states to change laws barring same-sex ‘marriage’
Most Reverend Dennis M. Schnurr made the following statement about the U.S. Supreme Court decisions of June 26, 2013. The Supreme Court’s decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act is deeply disappointing. It means that the federal law government will recognize same-sex “marriages” in states that provide for it, …