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Bishop J. Mark Spalding was ordained and installed as bishop of the Diocese of Nashville on Feb. 2, 2018, and that was the first time that many people of the diocese were introduced to the much-loved pastor from Kentucky.

St. Katharine Drexel was an heiress who established a religious order, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. She used her fortune to build schools and churches across the country to serve Native American and African-American communities.

The Diocese of Nashville will kick off the 2019 Bishop’s Annual Appeal for Ministries the weekend of Feb. 24, hoping to build on the 2018 campaign, the most successful ever.

You can follow Bishop J. Mark Spalding on Twitter, and “like” the Diocese of Nashville on Facebook, but you only get the full story by subscribing to the Tennessee Register newspaper.

Father Augustus Tolton, the first African-American priest ordained in the United States, was born into slavery and endured myriad obstacles, both inside the Catholic Church and out, as he relentlessly followed his call from God.

After more than 30 years with St. Mary Villa Child Development Center, executive director Clarie Givens has retired.

Anthony Ray Hinton spent 30 years on Alabama’s death row for a crime he did not commit.

Lara Schuler has accepted the position of assistant superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Nashville and will begin in her new post on July 1.

When singer-songwriter PJ Anderson and his wife Rachel were expecting their first baby, they thought they were ready to take on the unexpected challenges of parenthood and being open to life.

There is a growing demand for fertility awareness based methods of birth control, and Ascension Saint Thomas Health is trying to meet that demand.

To Rebecca Hammel, superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Nashville, Catholic schools provide an experience that is nothing less than transcendent. And she’s working hard to spread that message far and wide across Middle Tennessee during Catholic Schools Week, Jan. 27-Feb. 2, and throughout the year.

After two years at the helm of Catholic Charities of Tennessee, Executive Director Pam Russo will be leaving her post in mid-March to return to the Diocese of Allentown, Pennsylvania. There, she will fill the newly created role of Diocesan Secretary for Youth Protection and Catholic Human Services.

In 2004, Pope John Paul II High School embarked on an experiment: could students with intellectual disabilities attend school with typically-developing peers in a rigorous, Catholic scholastic environment, and not only co-exist on the same campus, but become fully immersed and accepted members of the school community?

While watching CNN 10, a morning news program for schools, the students at St. Edward School were captivated by the story of Chris Stout, the founder and head of the Veterans Community Pro-ject in Kansas City, Missouri, and one of 2018’s year-end CNN Heroes.

Michael Simpson has come a long way from receiving in-school suspensions, becoming a runaway at age 15, and attending multiple high schools, before finally graduating.

Deacon Gaspar DeGaetano can check off another box in his effort promoting the cause of sainthood for Father Patrick Ryan, who died in 1878 during a Yellow Fever epidemic that swept through Chattanooga.

A new class of candidates for the permanent diaconate was to begin four years of formation on Friday, Jan. 25.

WASHINGTON. Those who stand up for the dignity of life in all its stages and want to see this respect for all life enshrined once again in U.S. law have a friend in the Pence family and the Trump administration, Vice President Mike Pence told the March for Life crowd on the National Mall Jan. 18.

The bishops of the United States ended their recent week-long retreat more unified as they grapple with the challenges facing the Church, including the sex abuse crisis, said Bishop J. Mark Spalding.

A recent meeting between leaders of the Diocese of Nashville and the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services has set the stage for a growing relationship between the two as they work together to protect children.