A lthough we don’t know the exact day, this year we are celebrating the 185th anniversary of the first Mass celebrated within the city limi...

O ne visits the offices by walking down a long sandstone walk boarded by flowers and azalea bushes that bloom beautifully in the spring.  S...

T his is the logo for the 185th anniversary of the first known Mass celebrated within the city limits of Akron.  On September 27th at 7PM...

It is a busy end of the year!  Apologies for no posts this week! 1965 T he Second Vatican Council closes and in the next city over,...

W hile doing some research for a project concerning the upcoming 90th anniversary of St. Sebastian Parish, I came across this bit of inform...

I have family who are public school teachers and they are not always kind about Catholic schools accusing them of accepting “typical stude...

One more installment after this and we get to the founding of St. Sebastian Parish! 1 907 saw Akron’s next Catholic parish established...

Today we begin a new series on Friday  Potpourri.  Inspired by current events in Schneider Park and the upcoming nonagintennial (90th) anni...

T oday is just more of a report on what happened in Catholic Akron last night. We had our inaugural Theology on Tap Akron at the Thirst...

We have some seminarians living at St. Sebastian this summer.  One of them has rarely been south of 303 and so we have been introducing him...

I n my defense, I have never been a witness to a burglary before.  It is nothing like the movies.  There's no drama, no threatening mus...

S o, this past Friday night Sebastian and I went on a long, long walk around West Akron and we came across this scene: A car lost control...

M y first summer at St. Sebastian I was in my room when I heard what sounded like a parade going past the parish.  The reason it sounded li...

T his is the story of how this past Friday I obtained the second most expensive object that I own. This is the most expensive thing that I o...

My first Thanksgiving at St. Sebastian I drove past Snyder Park, the park one block west of the parish, on my way to the ecumenical service ...