Dear Friends in Christ, As a former member of Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) Board of Directors, I am inviting every parish and school in our archdiocese to use CRS Rice Bowl for Lent 2015. CRS Rice Bowl guides families on a Lenten journey of faith and solidarity, helps parents bring …

More than 130 parishes, schools, a university and a religious order in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati are participating in the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Rise Bowl program during Lent this year. The program, according to archdiocesan CRS Director Pam Long, previously known as Operation Rice Bowl, has been renamed CRS …

Friday, February 5, 2010 ARCHDIOCESE — With Operation Rice Bowl, Catholic Relief Services’ annual Lenten program, set to begin on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17, the archdiocesan Catholic Social Action Office has once again teamed with CRS to offer challenge grants to area parishes and schools.