Wednesday, October 7, 2009 By Staff Report ARCHDIOCESE — Sibichen Thekveli believes the World Mission Sunday Mass Oct. 18 is the first step in developing the goals and framework for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati’s five-year Asian solidarity project. As a member of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Community, Thekveli said very few …

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 By Staff Report ARCHDIOCESE — Bill Thoman was equipped with two observations upon returning from his 10-day trip to the Philippines in January. He jokingly said his waistline grew after he ate the daily meals that were a common occurrence in the country. But that didn’t …

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 ARCHDIOCESE — In recent years, the church’s pastoral attention has been as focused on the East as it has on the West. Around the turn of this current century, the Vatican began gearing up for a new missionary push in Asia. While the Bible has fully or …

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 By David Eck DAYTON DEANERY — In 1834 Maria Anna Brunner, an elderly widow in Switzerland inspired by the redemption, reparation and reconciliation through the Precious Blood of Jesus, began spending her time in prayer, taking care of the men in a seminary started by her …

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 1764: Maria Anna Probst born 1793: Maria Anna Probst marries John Baptist Brunner

Monday, October 5, 2009 By Dean Preston COLUMBUS — I’m Catholic, and I’m in prison. I converted to Catholicism in prison and was baptized just over a year ago. Before this, I was lost in contradiction and depression, and although I didn’t formally call myself this, I was militantly anti-Catholic. …

Friday, October 2, 2009 MILWAUKEE — Project Rachel, the post-abortion reconciliation ministry of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, has been healing hearts of those affected by abortion since 1984.

Friday, October 2, 2009 ARCHDIOCESE — A Catholic woman from the Cincinnati area, Carole Adlard, has been named a 2009 Angel in Adoption for her outstanding advocacy of adoption issues. The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI), which orchestrates the Angels in Adoption program, honored Adlard along with more than …

Thursday, October 1, 2009 CATHEDRAL DEANERY — St. Monica-St. George Parish Newman Center is sponsoring a year of events devoted to writer, activist and Trappist Monk Thomas Merton.

Thursday, October 1, 2009 By Mike Dyer ST. FRANCIS DE SALES DEANERY — Mary Bridges stood in the front of the undercroft at St. Mary Parish in Hyde Park with a microphone in hand and spoke candidly to the audience about the struggle she had endured to remain in her …