Solar eclipse today illustrates how elements of faith (God as Creator) and science (the orderliness of planets and moons and their orbits) go hand-in-hand. See updates and pictures from our journalists who viewed the eclipse from different parts of the archdiocese.
At begninning of a new school year, South City Catholic Academy celebrates excitement and enhancements of partnership model school.
National organization holds convention in St. Louis; hopes to start post in this area.
Federation President Theresa Ruzicka gets Most Influential Business Women Award.
Maronite bishop who spent half a century here died Aug. 9
At the initial moment of totality Aug. 21, excitement quickly spread among Visitation Academy students gathered on Ritter Field as they observed the rare solar eclipse.
They whooped and hollered then kept it up for the duration of the one-minute, seven-second celestial light show ... well, the non-light show. Only the sun's corona was visible as the moon blotted out the rest, a black ball inside a pulsating circle of light.
"That was so cool; I have...
Seventh-grader Milly Patterson taught her fellow students and even her principal a maneuver to get a look at the effect of the eclipse.
Milly interlocked her fingers, a trick her dad taught her, to create an image of the sun — a crescent moon shape as a result of the moon partially blocking it. Earlier, her principal at Holy Spirit School in Maryland Heights, Jill Gould, used a colander to create dozens of crescent shapes.
The Holy Spirit School students took two buses to St....
Brother Sun and Sister Moon put on quite a show for the Poor Clare Nuns.
As he described in his hymn "Canticle of the Sun," St. Francis believed that everything was a gift from God; thus the elements of nature were his brothers and sisters.
It was a fitting song for the Poor Clare Nuns — a cloistered, contemplative Franciscan community that celebrated the historic total solar eclipse Aug. 21 with an afternoon of prayer and singing at their monastery in south St. Louis County....
Updated Aug. 17
Bishop Robert J. Shaheen, the first Maronite priest to be ordained in the United States and a priest and bishop in St. Louis for a half-century, died Aug. 9. Bishop Shaheen, who celebrated his 80th birthday in June, was the second bishop of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles, headquartered in St. Louis. He retired in 2013.
A celebration of the Divine Liturgy (funeral) was held Aug. 16 at St....
Theresa Ruzicka, president of Catholic Charities of St. Louis, is proud of her organization's efforts to help break the cycle of poverty, empowering people to make permanent changes in their lives and support their efforts to lead self-sufficient, dignified lives.
Ruzicka was interviewed by the St. Louis Review after being named among the recipients of the Most Influential Business Women Awards from the St. Louis Business Journal. The award was presented to her Aug. 11.
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