May 2, 2012 By Eileen Connelly, OSU Whether a guest speaker in period costume is sharing her ancestors’ experiences during the Civil War or a retiree is giving a group of students a hands-on lesson in recycling, the emphasis is on enrichment and learning from each other.

May 1, 2012 By Mike Dyer A few days before Easter, Joe D’Ambrosio started yet another chapter in his life when he was hired as a maintenance employee at St. Clarence Parish in North Olmsted, Ohio.

April 30, 2012 Two parishes signed a “Covenant Partnership” on Epiphany Sunday bringing together two unlikely partners, Our Lady of Visitation, a predominately white parish from the west side of Hamilton County, and St. Leo, a small inner city parish whose members include immigrants from Guatemala and Burundi.

By Steve Trosley   DAYTON – More than 9,000 students from more than 30 Catholic schools in the 12 northernmost counties of the archdiocese gathered in Dayton Wednesday morning for the first annual Unity Mass.

April 25, 2012 Tony Aretz, Ph.D., president of the College of Mount St. Joseph, formally signed the St. Francis Pledge, a commitment by Catholic individuals, parishes and institutions to assess their community’s energy conservation and impact on global climate change.

April 23, 2012 By Mike Dyer More than 300 people attended a seminar on April 10 to learn how being a faithful Catholic and good citizen are related.

April 23, 2012 By Stephen Trosley Four men will be ordained May 19 at 11 a.m. at the Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains by Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr, beginning their priestly ministry in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. A fifth man will be ordained at a later date and return …

On April 16, Margaret Singer, a social worker with Catholic Charities’ Su Casa Hispanic Center received the Everyday Freedom Hero Award from the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and the YWCA of Cincinnati.

April 17, 2012 Badin High School will be closed Wednesday, April 18, to honor the memory of the late Tom Rains, veteran Social Studies teacher who passed away on Friday, April 13.

April 10, 2012 ARCHDIOCESE — Archbishop Dennis Schnurr and the Advisory Board of the Catholic Inner-City Schools Education Fund (CISE) are pleased to announce that Mr. J. Wickliffe (Wick) Ach will be serving as the 2012 CISE Campaign Chairman.