Bishop J. Mark Spalding blessed the new addition to Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Springfield on Sunday, Oct. 24. The addition includes a new entrance to the church, with a narthex, bathrooms, cry room, bride's room, and additional seating. Bishop Spalding, Father Gervan Menezes, right, and Oscar Romero, a seminarian for the Diocese of Nashville, prepare the incense in the new narthex before the Mass.

The reredos painting behind the altar at the Sagrado Corazon in the Catholic Pastoral Center, seen here on Wednesday, Oct. 27, was completed in 2016. A reredos is an ornately decorated partition or screen wall behind an altar, which can be painted or made of mosaics, carved wood, stone, or other materials.

The Diocese of Nashville hosted the 2021 Diocesan Fiscal Management Conference Oct. 3-6 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel. The conference attracted about 700 fiscal management professionals working for dioceses across the United States and beyond. Several employees of the Nashville Diocese were among the presenters at the conference. Brian Cooper, Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer of the diocese, gave a presentation on the planning process used by the diocese's chancery staff.