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January 2025
Out and About for January 2025
1) Socktober at Mother Teresa School Fifth graders at Mother Teresa Elementary School in Cincinnati hosted a “Socktober” service project. Students collected 1,722 pairs of socks to give to @servecity622. 2) Notre Dame Mission Volunteers Mount Notre Dame High School in Reading was the setting for 27 staff members from …
“Eschatological” Man, Part Four: Raised Male and Female
Note: This article is part of an ongoing series on Pope St. John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body” (TOB). In the resurrection of the body, our human nature will be transformed and perfected. Scripture describes this as being “like angels in heaven” (Mt. 22:30, Mk. 12:25). However, as I …
Remembering Gerry Faust: A life of Faith and Football
When many think of Gerry Faust, they think of football. That’s a fair place to begin. Faust had an impressive resume on the field as coach at Moeller High School and the University of Notre Dame. Beyond football, however, he was a man of great faith with a special devotion …
Book Review: Rabbles, Riots, and Ruins
Mike Aquilina has distinguished himself as the foremost communicator of early Church history to a general audience. His forte is sifting through a pile of sources, finding valuable nuggets that will capture and keep the attention of a typical reader and presenting that material in an appealing, winsome fashion. In …
Lights, Camera, Elder!
Real World Broadcasting Experience in the Classroom!! By Kary Ellen Berger It’s a Friday night as you tune into a high school football or basketball game. One might expect such a broadcast from a local news station, but this is the ENN—Elder News Network. Established at Elder High School in …
Keeping the Faithful in the Loop
by Matt Hess The Lord’s final mandate to His disciples before the Ascension was to preach the Gospel to all the world. To do this today, followers of Jesus are called to be communicators, passing on the faith through word and deed. Not everyone is called to this professionally, but …
Imagining Heaven
What will Heaven be like? Heaven surpasses human understanding. None of us knows for sure what it will be like. The Church’s teaching provides few details, calling Heaven “a mystery of blessed communion with God,” which “is beyond all understanding and description” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1027). While it …
Cincinnati’s Basilica
When the official announcement was made on Aug. 15, 2020, the Solemnity of The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that Pope Francis had granted the title of Minor Basilica to the Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains in downtown Cincinnati, it was a moment of great joy for its …
The Vice of Indifference
A few months ago, I was struck by a seemingly ordinary phrase: “The time that we have.” I’d heard versions of it before, but this time, it stirred something in my mind that wouldn’t go away. My habitual indifference toward daily life was, if only temporarily, extinguished. That is not …