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If Tennessee death row inmate Lee Hall goes to the death chamber as scheduled on Dec. 5, he will be the sixth man executed at Nashville’s Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in less than 16 months.

Donating stocks and other securities to the Diocese of Nashville, it’s parishes, schools or ministries is one way to support a cause important to the donor while taking advantage of breaks offered in the tax laws.

Thanks to the courage of a teenage birth mother and the work of Catholic Charities of Tennessee, St. Henry parishioner Matt Davis received the greatest of all gifts: the gift of life, and a loving adoptive family.

The Diocese of Nashville will begin rolling out new brand standards the first of the year to help tie together all the ministries, services and activities of the diocese

Bishop J. Mark Spalding and other bishops from five Southeastern states will make their “ad limina” visit to Rome Dec. 1-7 to report on the status of their dioceses to Pope Francis and officials from the various Vatican offices.

Parish offertory collections jumped 4.3 percent in the 2018-19 fiscal year, even as the Diocese of Nashville at the same time set a new record by raising more than $2.6 million in the Bishop’s Annual Appeal for Ministries.

The gentrified Bushwick section of Brooklyn, New York, is a much different neighborhood now than it was in the 1950s when Joseph LoCasto, a Franklin musician and businessman, grew up there.

Nick Aguirre has taken the position of Director of Campus Ministry at University Catholic in his second stint in Nashville.

At St. Cecilia Academy, the goal is to teach the students more than math, science, literature and art. The goal is to produce women who can engage with their community and serve others.

INDIANAPOLIS. Outside, a cold drizzle dampened Indianapolis Nov. 21.

Catholic Media Productions’ 2019 Dinner and Auction to support Nashville Catholic Radio focused on the future, while remembering to thank the people responsible for the progress the station has made to date. 

Last spring, more than 2,000 people from every corner of the Diocese of Nashville filled Sagrado Corazon Church at the Catholic Pastoral Center in Nashville for the Chrism Mass on the Wednesday of Holy Week.

BALTIMORE. The U.S. bishops Nov. 12 adopted the sixth edition of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Program of Priestly Formation for U.S. dioceses and religious orders.

The ongoing growth of the Diocese of Nashville has revealed both needs and opportunities for expanded ministries.

The Diocese of Nashville’s Tribunal staff has started an initiative to go out to parishes to guide people through what diocesan Vicar General and Judicial Vicar Father John Hammond called a difficult, largely misunderstood, sometimes scary, and always painful process – a marriage annulment.

Daniel Tillias, a Haitian with a big heart and a long-time ally of the Parish Twinning Program of the Americas, was recently named one of CNN’s Heroes of the Year, honoring “everyday people doing extraordinary things to change the world.”

Father Wil Steinbacher, a Glenmary priest who has served in the Diocese of Nashville for 20 years as a missionary, retreat leader, prison minister and environmental advocate, is, at age 84, finally ready to slow down.

Christians are impoverished if they don’t know the Church Fathers of the Early Church, the bishops, theologians and evangelists who recorded and passed on to later generations the traditions, the liturgies and the teachings of the Early Church, said Mike Aquilina, an author and speaker who led off the Office of Faith Formation’s fall speaker series on Monday, Nov. 4.

David Wright is a scientist who loves to grow roses. When he and his family moved to Nashville in 2001, he could grow plants in an optimal “zone 6.”

Catholic artists, poets, authors and musicians are called to use their faith to elevate popular entertainment and the culture. The Nashville-based Catholics United For the Arts was founded to help Catholics do just that.