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Effort for new retreat and conference center to begin
A long deferred dream — a new retreat center serving the Diocese of Covington — is beginning its road to reality, diocesan officials announced this week. With Bishop Roger Foys’ approval, Michael Murray, stewardship director for the diocese, will begin communication with ...
Father Mark Steidle, 1962-2009
Father Mark Steidle, a priest ordained for service in the Diocese of Covington in 1993, died Aug. 30. During his diocesan service, Father Steidle served as sacramental minister and administrator at St. Ann Church, Covington, and as associate pastor at St. Joseph Church, Cold Spring. He was ...
Y.C.E.T. members commissioned to evangelize throughout diocese
On Sept. 20, 23 members of the Diocese of Covington Youth Evangelization Team (Y.C.E.T.) gathered for a commissioning ceremony at St. Joseph Church in Crescent Springs to commit themselves to serving the Church and evangelizing their communities. Y.C.E.T. members are official representatives of the ...
Bishop Brossart High School closes to stem flu spread
ALEXANDRIA — The principal of Bishop Brossart High School, after consultation with the diocesan Department of Catholic Schools and the Northern Kentucky Health Department, decided to close the school for four school days beginning Sept. 22 in an effort to slow the spread of the flu, ...
Eighth Day
The power of a name
The readings for the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Cycle "B" are: Numbers 11:25-29; James 5:1-6; and Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48. In recent times the recording industry has been shaken by widespread international violation of ...
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Believe, Teach, Practice
The pleasures and power of ‘porch sittin’
Almost every morning when I looked out my window I would see her. She would be sitting on her front porch reading her Bible. Her name was Tillie Stamper. She lived across the street from me when I was growing up. She was in her 60s. She ...
Viewpoint
“If today was your last day”
I get to listen to a lot of new music since I have a young daughter. We were driving back home from visiting Grandma when a Nickelback song came on the radio. It was just the two of us on a 300-mile ride, and I started thinking about how my daughter ...
Ordination 2009
First reading Isiah 61:1-3 The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, Because the Lord has anointed me; He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the lowly, To heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And release to the prisoners, To announce a year of favor from the Lord And a day of ...