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A prayer for those who work
In the evening of Dec. 4, 2025, Fr. Anthony Shonis, a priest of the Diocese of Owensboro, offered the prayer before the Christmas dinner for the Tri-County Council of Labor, AFL-CIO, in Henderson, Kentucky.
Parish staff and pastors encouraged to hold on in Christ at Dec. 3 gathering
On Dec. 3, 2025, the Diocese of Owensboro hosted its ninth annual evangelization gathering for pastors, parish staff, and volunteers at The Bruce Convention Center in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
‘We don’t have to wait to be great’
Therese Watson, a 12th-grade homeschool youth who belongs to St. Francis de Sales Parish in Paducah, was one of the teens selected to be present for the live, digital encounter with Pope Leo XIV during the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis in November 2025.
You’re invited to become a Friend of Gasper River
Each year, we try our hardest to keep camp affordable for our camp families and for our retreat guests at Gasper River Catholic Youth Camp and Retreat Center in Bowling Green. Each year, this gets more and more difficult with rising operating costs and the fact that camp continues to grow and grow each summer and retreat season.
Paducah parishioner earns Eagle Scout Award
Andrew “Drew” Byrne was awarded his Eagle Scout Award on Nov. 11, 2025, at St. Thomas More Parish in Paducah, Kentucky.
Trinity and St. Mary of the Woods break ground on new school facility
Hundreds of students, staff members, community leaders, and elected officials gathered Friday morning to celebrate the groundbreaking of a new joint facility that will house both Trinity High School and St. Mary of the Woods School.
Writers across the diocese provided year’s worth of hope-filled jubilee reflections
In early 2025, The Western Kentucky Catholic launched Pilgrims of Hope, a yearlong blog series inspired by Pope Francis’ Bull of Indiction of the Ordinary Jubilee of the Year 2025.
A year-end gift: Lighting the way for our neighbors
As the year draws to a close and the holiday season encourages reflection, many of us turn our thoughts to ways we can make a difference in our community.
Through Disciples Response Fund grant, music director hopes to ‘meet maximum capacity in people’s hearts’
“To provide people an experience of Christ that tends to the soil of their heart,” is what Clint Campbell said they are trying to accomplish with St. Pius X Parish’s praise and worship nights.
Kolbe film inspires Paducah parishioners to grow closer to Our Lady
The Paducah faith community attended a Nov. 4, 2025 showing of “Triumph of the Heart,” a feature film about St. Maximillian Kolbe and his companions’ triumph over the darkness of Auschwitz.
