Gathering together as a school community to observe Ash Wednesday was a bit different on the campus of St. Bernard Prep School as the Middle School community socially distanced in the Abbey Church, and the High School did the same in the Dining Hall to begin the Lenten season.

Cullman Mayor Woody Jacobs has officially proclaimed this week (Jan. 31 - Feb. 6), "Catholic Schools Week" in the City of Cullman.

For more than 20 years, the St. Vincent de Paul Society at Sacred Heart Catholic Church has been helping area families with food, clothing and financial assistance.

Pope Francis changed church law Monday to explicitly allow women to do more things during Mass, granting them access to the most sacred place on the altar, while continuing to affirm that they cannot be priests.

The idea’s simple but powerful: At Christmastime, why not get local kids involved in the spirit of charitable giving?

Ave Maria Grotto has decked the halls, shelves, sidewalks and shrines in the gift shop and four acre garden park with festive sparkling lights to spread a bit of ambiance and calm to visitors.

On Friday at the Benedictine Order’s Pontifical University of Sant’Anselmo in Rome, Fr. Bernard J. Denson O.S.B., a monk of St. Bernard Abbey, successfully defended his thesis entitled “The Presence of Christ in the Thought and Aesthetic of Percy Bysshe Shelley.”

The town of Baileyton isn’t going to let a virus steal it’s Christmas cheer, but it is making changes to its annual Christmas celebration to keep people safe.

It may feel like the Grinch stole Christmas, with so many beloved traditions moving from in-person to online, but - like the cheerful residents of Whoville - organizers are finding the silver lining in these changed circumstances.