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Knottsville, Philpot parishioners gather to celebrate pastor’s 20th ordination anniversary
On Jan. 21, 2024, the parishioners of St. William Parish in Knottsville and St. Lawrence Parish in Philpot gathered to honor their pastor’s 20th anniversary of priesthood.
Family reunion: St. Peter of Alcantara celebrates 150 years
As I get ready for Mass on Jan. 20, 2024, something feels different. No, it’s not the fact that it is nine degrees outside. It’s not that the house that is unusually quiet for a group of seven getting ready for church at the same time.
Paducah Walk for Life continues indoors amid freezing weather conditions
Echoes of “Choose Life” resounded through the parish center at St. Francis de Sales on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 20, 2024.
Kirche Heilige Joseph: The tale of the German church in Owensboro, Kentucky
In the 1850s, more than 150,000 Germans had come to the United States, and many were trickling into southern Indiana. Early in the 1880s and throughout that decade many German Catholic farmers came from the parishes in southern Indiana and settled in the vicinity of Owensboro.
A Vincentian’s journey
I recently sat down with Nancy Harris, president of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul – Diocesan Council of Western Kentucky, Inc. and talked to her about her path to servant leadership.
Epiphany at St. Alphonsus and St. Elizabeth
St. Alphonsus Parish in St. Joseph and St. Elizabeth Parish in Curdsville had our annual Epiphany Celebration with our children and choir on Jan. 7, 2024.
Paducah parishioners collect, share items for moms with unplanned pregnancies
St. John the Evangelist parishioners in Paducah on March 25, 2023, named their spiritually adopted babies and began praying each day for nine months for these babies by name that they will be saved from the scourge of abortion.
Welcome to God’s family
Carla Grant of St. Anthony Parish in Peonia writes: “Dcn. T.J. Dennison baptized my great niece, Evelyn Jaymes Braun, at St. Anthony on Nov. 11, 2023. It was a beautiful blessing to witness.”
Sts. Peter and Paul host live nativity
Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Hopkinsville hosted a live nativity, known as “Nativity on Ninth” due to the church’s location on 9th Street, for the second consecutive year on Friday, Dec. 15 and Saturday, Dec. 16 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. both evenings.
Paducah Faith Formation students pray for peace during annual Living Rosary
Paducah Faith Formation held their annual Living Rosary during the month of October.
