Althoff Catholic High School junior Gabby Orlet, a three-sport athlete, has won the Jersey Mike’s Naismith High School Basketball Courage Award. Orlet is battling bone cancer but vows to overcome it. “You’ve got to attack it head-on,” she said (David Wilhelm photo). Gabby Orlet can be excused for not immediately […]
Deacons (from left) Justin Wolfslau, Brad Haar and Tom Ritzheimer are completing their first year of service since being ordained June 3 at Cathedral of St. Peter in Belleville. All three minister at St. George in New Baden and St. Mary in Trenton (Submitted photo). Bishop McGovern on the role […]
Carter Lindauer, a 17-year-old senior at Belleville East High School and a parishioner at Cathedral of St. Peter, cleans a grave marker in the School Sisters of Notre Dame plot at Green Mount Cemetery. It’s part of Lindauer’s Eagle Scout project (David Wilhelm photo). One hundred forty years ago, a […]
Pat Brandmeyer (above right) and niece Mary Miller fold material that has been cut and pinned. From there, it’s off to the sewing machine, where it will be used to make a throw that will be donated to St. Vincent de Paul to help needy metro-east residents stay warm in […]
Young people train for sports, for contests of all sorts, both physical and intellectual. Jashira Bolden, 16, is training young people to become tomorrow’s volunteers.
On the first Sunday of Advent in any year, whether from Cycle A readings (Matthew), or Cycle B (Mark), or Cycle C (Luke), the Sunday Gospel is taken from Jesus’ last discourse in one of these three Gospels.
The institution of the Feast of Christ the King dates from 1925. Pope Pius XI’s intention in establishing this feast was to counteract secularism and atheism. The liturgy of this feast celebrates the rule of Jesus over individuals, families, society in general, over the state and over the universe.
