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Imagine a quintessential American Halloween party.

“The priests and people are enthusiastic about your coming to Owensboro…” This is how Bishop Henry Soenneker, the second bishop of Owensboro, began a letter he was writing on May 4, 1970. The recipient of the letter was none other than Archbishop Fulton Sheen and Bishop Soenneker was not exaggerating about the priest’s and people’s enthusiasm.

Few things say Kentucky summer like getting out the fishing poles and heading to the lake. This felt like the perfect summer article to kick off the fall printing season of The Western Kentucky Catholic.

A young Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph makes her way to the little schoolhouse one morning.

Four years ago, the archives opened a safe that had remained locked for over a decade.

The November 1939 issue of The Mount, Mount Saint Joseph Academy’s newspaper, proclaimed “A never to be forgotten happiness came to Mount Saint Joseph on Wednesday, November 8th, in the visit of Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, noted Catholic writer and radio speaker.”

In the early 1950s, a Knights of Columbus council in Owensboro wanted to build a clubhouse for the recreation of its members.

Fr. Maurice Teill is a name that many of you have not heard in quite some time, but I’m sure remember quite well.

On December 24, 1939, at 11:20 p.m., Mount Saint Joseph’s bell rings out across the freezing cold night in St. Joseph, Kentucky.

It’s early 1945, and the United States digs in their heels for a war they fear may last another decade.