By Erin Callahan For The Catholic Telegraph While the nation debates Common Core, Catholic educators can lead the conversation about accountability and standards while still maintaining central values, according to a discussion at the University of Dayton’s Catholic Education Summit on July 14.

By John Stegeman The Catholic Telegraph With the use of a walker, and a helper at the ready, Archbishop Emeritus Daniel E. Pilarczyk made his way down the fourth-floor hallway at the Little Sisters of the Poor St. Paul’s Archbishop Leibold Home for the Aged. Despite suffering the effects of …

By Steve Trosley The Catholic Telegraph A five-year, five acre land conservation project at Calvary Cemetery in Dayton will bear the name of St. Kateri, the first native American Catholic saint and appropriately because she is the patron saint of the environment and ecology, according to Karla Hollenkamp of the …

By Steve Trosley The Catholic Telegraph DAYTON – Calvary Cemetery Board President Harry Finke may soon be retiring, but he has more than left his mark on the place that has absorbed most of his attention for the past 51 years. He served as president for 46 of those years. …

By John Stegeman The Catholic Telegraph  The Fellowship of Catholic University Students, better known as FOCUS, is coming to Wright State University this fall.

By Eileen Connelly, OSU The Catholic Telegraph  Every Sunday morning at the 11 a.m. Mass, a group of college students can be found gathered in the front left section of Annunciation Parish in Clifton to celebrate the Eucharist together. They are members of the Society of Saint Paul (SSP), a …

Dear Father: Am I crazy? I mean, my friends think I’m crazy because I won’t let my kids have a phone or an iPad. I want them to run around and play and not look at a screen all the time. People look at me as if I’m crazy. What …

By Steve Trosley The Catholic Telegraph  The staff of Bayley, a continuing care retirement community founded and operated by the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, thinks of the facility as something more than just a well-equipped and well-appointed senior citizen home.

By Eileen Connelly, OSU The Catholic Telegraph Xavier University’s student athletes are known for their skills on the court and field. Their prowess also extends to academics: XU boasts a 97 percent graduation rate among all sports teams, which is 12th in the nation and first in the Big East, and …

By Eileen Connelly, OSU The Catholic Telegraph  She knows food, said Francesca Franchina. And, the devout Catholic also knows her faith. Making the connection between the two is her passion. Franchina’s earliest childhood memories involve food and her appreciation for Italian cuisine is rooted in her Sicilian ancestry.