January 2025

Vol 194
No 1

January 2025

Vol 194
No 1

From the Editors Desk

Columns

Journalism with Respect & Compassion

I’ve been a Catholic all my life—although the nuns at old St. Mary’s Catholic School in Middletown might contest the statement. I grew up in Middletown as the son of a daily-Mass attending father and...

Busca al Senor

Reunido con sus discípulos alrededor de una mesa la noche antes de dar su vida por nuestra salvación, Jesús le dijo a Tomás: “Yo soy el Camino, la Verdad y la Vida. Nadie va al...

Seek the Lord for January 2025

Gathered with His disciples around a table the evening before He would lay down His life for our salvation, Jesus said to Thomas, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one...

Features

From Curiosity to Conviction: Catholic Schools Spark New Believers

Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati have always been places where students grow closer to God. Recently, there has been an uptick in their non-Catholic students choosing to become Catholic. One such student is...

Listening to God with Joseph

In a visually saturated world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and become desensitized to beauty. Visio Divina, Latin for “divine seeing,” encourages us to slow down and engage in visual contemplation, using art as a...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

Keeping the Faithful in the Loop

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...

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,”...

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....