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Hundreds of young people from the Diocese of Nashville plan to travel to Washington, D.C., later this month to participate in the March for Life, including the first-ever group of middle school students, from St. Joseph School in Madison.

In the 1830s and 1840s, Catholics were spread across Tennessee in small pockets, where Mass was celebrated in people’s homes whenever a circuit-riding priest would be traveling through the area.

WASHINGTON. The March for Life, the annual march in Washington to protest legalized abortion in the United States, is tying itself in 2020 to the women’s suffrage movement for the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

Parents interested in using the state’s new Education Savings Accounts program to send their children to Catholic schools are invited to two upcoming information sessions.

To help the Church grow in love and faithful witness to God, Pope Francis has declared the third Sunday in Ordinary Time to be dedicated to the word of God. This year, that Sunday falls on Jan. 26.

The Diocese of Nashville’s World Marriage Day celebration will be held on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020.

Nashville’s building boom has created a desperate need for workers in the skilled construction trades. To help fill that need and provide people with an opportunity for a stable career, the Catholic Labor Network and Catholic Charities of Tennessee are working with area construction trade unions to promote an apprenticeship readiness program.

Married couples are invited to “Three to Stay Married,” an evening of dinner and inspiration, on Saturday, Jan. 25, at the Cathedral of the Incarnation’s Fleming Center.

Aquinas College will host a week-long celebration of the Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas, Jan. 27-30 in Nashville.

University Catholic will be holding an inaugural event for the new Nashville Avow group, a women’s vocational discernment group, on Friday, Jan. 31.

In December 1969, the Men’s Club at St. Philip Church in Franklin delivered Christmas baskets of food and gifts to six families in need, all of them St. Philip parishioners.

As workers inside Room 23 at the McGruder Family Resource Center painted and hammered their way to completing the new Bordeaux-North Community Justice Center, Judge Rachel Bell surveyed the progress, reflecting on the years of hard work it’s taken to make this a reality.

In describing the Diocese of Nashville, people have used a variety of numbers of parishes within its boundaries. The number has changed as parishes are established or as communities lose their official designation as a parish.

Diocesan school officials will host information sessions about the state’s new Education Savings Account program after the Sunday Masses on Jan. 12, 2020, at Sagrado Corazon Church at the Catholic Pastoral Center in Nashville.

Seven Nashville priests, relatively new to the job of leading a faith community, recently attended a New Pastor Workshop to learn tools and tips to help run a parish community.

On a recent Thursday morning, while most people were still enjoying coffee and breakfast, volunteers from the Diocese of Nashville were preparing and packing up lunch and dinner meals of soup and sandwiches to be delivered to the residents of Chippington Towers in Madison, an apartment complex for low-income senior citizens.

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, throughout its more than 185-year history, has been dedicated to serving people in need. Today, that might mean helping a family avoid eviction from their home or paying a utility bill to keep on the lights and heat.

VATICAN CITY. For Pope Francis, 2019 included his sixth anniversary as pope, and was a year that saw him still confronted with the clerical sexual abuse crisis and with Vatican financial scandals.

Bishop J. Mark Spalding returned to Nashville Dec. 10 from his “ad limina” visit to Rome and brings back a personal message from Pope Francis to the people of the Diocese of Nashville.

The Diocese of Nashville is implementing a new Safe Environment training program and system of background checks for all employees of the diocese, its parishes, schools and institutions and volunteers who work with young people.