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Dawson Springs bluegrass fest breaks new record with life-affirming fundraising efforts
The Pickin’ Life Project hosted its annual “Bluegrass on (Lake) Beshear” charity event on Oct. 11, featuring live music from five bands. The event was both a celebration and a call to action for life.
Bringing Bethlehem ‘closer to home’ in Hopkinsville
“It feels like I’m really in Bethlehem.”
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.
Catholic dioceses and schools confront $800 million pension fund shortfall
Several U.S. dioceses and scores of other Catholic employers have hard choices to make amid an $800 million shortfall in a pension fund, managed by a Catholic financial services firm, for thousands of their employees and retirees.
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.
Youth embrace Pope Leo’s message of hope following unique digital meeting
INDIANAPOLIS (OSV News) – Pope Leo XIV encouraged American youth in a unique digital discussion Nov. 21, telling them that they were not only the “future of the Church,” but “the present,” saying “your voices, your ideas, your faith matter right now.”
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.
