1951 O n January 1st, 1951, the convent was completed.  The cost of the building and furnishings including the chapel, was $110,000.  ...

L ess than 48 hours ago I looked out my window and saw THIS: T oday I look out my window and see THIS: It's a beautiful world isn...

S o yesterday I wrote to you that I was going to be away from the parish most of the day with two of the seminarians who are staying at and...

T here are 6.6 million Catholics in the United States.   There are approximately 38,000 priests.   Some of that number of priests includ...

Continuing yesterday’s post . . .   W hat about the women?   What is happening to the religious orders around us?   Though worldwi...

L ast Monday I was on a field trip, which ate up a sufficient amount of time that the blog post that day had to be skipped.  Sharon Dietric...

T here is a great article in the Akron Beacon Journal today about Our Lady of the Elms 90 th anniversary.   You can read it by clicking...

N.B.  I am going out of town until Wednesday evening.  There will be no more posts until Thursday. W ell, I told you that I was go...

Yesterday our computers were down and I was unable to post before I left for the day.   Apparently Time Warner was down for much of Akron...

I will admit that I get excited around nuns.  If I see a nun in the congregation I slip back into the sacristy and announce, "We have ...