Brent McCarty, a parishioner of St. Martin Parish in Rome, Ky., first began working with birds of prey at the American Eagle Foundation when he was 19 years old.

When a father withholds the love, attention and affirmation that his children crave, it can leave the most intensive wound of all, Bob Allen Kroll told the men attending the 2026 Catholic Men’s Conference held on Saturday, Feb. 21, at the Riverpark Center in Owensboro.

The St. Ann Parish Hall in Morganfield was full on Saturday, Feb. 8 with more than 230 women from across western Kentucky sipping coffee, visiting vendors, meeting new people, and reuniting with old friends as the annual Joy, Laughter, and Holiness Women’s Retreat began.

The volunteers at Holy Spirit Parish in Bowling Green who participate in the Room in the Inn initiative “believe in living out the Beatitudes,” according to Carol Kunkel, one of the coordinators.

Dcn. Chris Gutiérrez hears a common argument when discussing the increased detainments and deportations of people throughout the United States over the past year.

During her senior year at Brescia College, Sr. Cheryl Clemonsm, OSU, took a class on mysticism, in which she wrote a paper about the 16th century Spanish mystic St. Teresa of Avila.

While presiding at the noon Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Stephen Cathedral on Feb. 18, Bishop William F. Medley suggested a new challenge for this Lent.

An electrical fire that occurred in the attic of St. Stephen Cathedral’s parish office has displaced the staff and ministries, but they are pressing on and grateful for the support of the local community.