The Owensboro community came together recently for the annual Right to Life of Owensboro Walk for Life, bringing together families, students, clergy, and supporters from throughout the area to stand together in support of the dignity and protection of human life.
This fall, the Catholic campus ministries at both Western Kentucky University and Murray State University have observed an increasing rate of student involvement and interest in Catholicism.
National Vocation Awareness Week is Nov. 1-6, 2026, and our diocese’s Called by Name Weekend is Nov. 7/8, 2026.
Mary Ruth Thompson, an eighth grader from Owensboro Catholic Middle School who attended the Sept. 24, 2026 beatification of Bl. Fulton J. Sheen, did not know a lot about the 20th-century American bishop before the trip.
A rousing chorus of the happy birthday song filled the Owensboro Sportscenter on Sept. 16, where students, faculty and staff of the Diocese of Owensboro’s 17 Catholic schools sang to their bishop, whose birthday would be the following day.
In his homily at the 100th anniversary of the dedication of St. Stephen Cathedral’s home at 610 Locust Street, Bishop William F. Medley reflected on “a century of baptisms, First Holy Communions, and Confirmations.”
Priesthood Sunday is observed this year on Sept. 27, and The Western Kentucky Catholic recently reached out to several of the Diocese of Owensboro’s priests to learn what brings them joy as they live out their vocations.
On Aug. 14, 2026, Mary Carrico Catholic School in Knottsville, Kentucky, broke ground for one of their largest campus expansions in the school’s recent history.
Fr. Larry Hostetter, pastor of St. Pius X Parish in Owensboro, blessed the newly developed Owensboro Catholic Schools Early Learning Campus on Aug. 4, 2026.
Four hundred faithful gathered at the Woodward Theatre in downtown Owensboro on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026 for “Spiritual Warfare & Our Lady,” a sold-out, daylong conference hosted by the diocesan Marian Shrine Committee.