Friday, August 6, 2010 ST. FRANCIS DE SALES DEANERY — Mary Ann Stansfield, a retired teacher and administrator at St. Rita School for the Deaf, was honored recently by the Greater Cincinnati Planned Giving Council with a Voices of Giving Award. The school made the nomination.

Thursday, August 5, 2010 ARCHDIOCESE — Eight members of the Sisters of St. Francis, Oldenburg, Ind., with ties to the Archdiocese of Cincinnati are celebrating their golden jubilees in 2010.

Thursday, August 5, 2010 By David Eck ARCHDIOCESE — When Father Barry Windholtz reads of a holy site in the Gospel or speaks of a shrine in Europe, he’s probably been there. For more than a decade, Father Windholtz has been leading pilgrimages to religious sites in various parts of …

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 ST. FRANCIS DE SALES DEANERY — Louisville Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz will be keynote speaker on Saturday, Aug. 28, at a program sponsored by the Athenaeum of Ohio’s Lay Pastoral Ministry Program (LPMP) addressing the church and marriage.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 ARCHDIOCESE — The Catholic Ministries Appeal of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati will host three Masses of thanksgiving for those who participated in the CM in 2010. Each will be celebrated by Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 By Mike Dyer ST. FRANCIS DE SALES DEANERY — It’s been almost a year since a new Knights of Columbus council began on the east side of Cincinnati, and the faith-filled group continues to prosper.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 By Eileen Connelly, OSU ST. FRANCIS DE SALES DEANERY — With change comes the opportunity for growth; with endings, the opportunity for new beginnings. Four parishes in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati — St. Andrew in Avondale, St. Agnes in Bond Hill, St. Mark in Evanston and St. …

Monday, July 26, 2010 By Mary Caffrey Knapke DAYTON DEANERY — How has Catholic education evolved in some of the largest cities in the United States? That’s the question examined in Urban Catholic Education: Tales of Twelve American Cities, co-edited by Thomas Hunt, a University of Dayton teacher education professor and …

Friday, July 23, 2010 By Mary Caffrey Knapke SPRINGFIELD DEANERY — “The idea came about because of a hurricane.” That’s how Alex Loehrer explains the inception of the Little Flower’s Big Harvest program at St. Teresa of the Child Jesus Parish in Springfield.

Thursday, July 22, 2010 By Mike Dyer CATHEDRAL DEANERY — When demolition began on the Friars Club building last spring, many people took time to remember the history of the facility, which is located at Ohio and McMillan streets in Clifton Heights. Those involved with the Friars Club also took …