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I just left Bishop Choby’s room after a short, but good visit. We were meeting to prepare his Easter letter to the people of the diocese.

In the Madison home where she lives with her parents and three younger siblings, Valeria Sanchez, 21, sits at the kitchen table underneath a gold-framed print of da Vinci’s “Last Supper,” helping her 6-year-old sister Ibeth read a book.

Aquinas College in Nashville has announced it will reconfigure its degree programs to focus solely on preparing teachers for Catholic schools, and in the process close its degree programs in the arts and sciences, business and nursing. The school will no longer offer residential services or student life programming. 

Visit any number of parishes across the Diocese of Nashville on a Friday night during Lent, and chances are, you will catch a whiff of frying fish and hush puppies, served up with a side of community and spirituality. 

President Donald Trump, during a campaign rally in Nashville, vowed to fight the latest court ruling blocking his executive order temporarily suspending immigration from six Muslim-majority countries and all refugees all the way to the Supreme Court.

Sometimes the people who have the most to say, speak the least. And in the case of James and Katherine “Kitty” Pulley, longtime members of St. Vincent de Paul Church on Heiman Street, they’d like to keep it that way.

Deacon Ron Deal wasn’t a soccer player growing up, but after going to games of the former Nashville Metros soccer team, “I kind of got bit by the bug.”

Anh Tuan Phan and Richard Childress will take another step on their journey to the priesthood when they are ordained as transitional deacons on Friday, April 7, at St. Joseph Church in Madison.

Catholic Extension is giving a boost to the eighth annual Seminarian Education Dinner and Auction: a matching grant of up to $50,000.

As you know, Bishop Choby has moved out of Saint Thomas West Hospital, and continues to receive treatment. His condition remains about the same.

NASHVILLE, TN – Aquinas College in Nashville has announced it will reconfigure its degree programs to focus solely on preparing teachers for Catholic schools, and in the process close its degree programs in the arts and sciences, business and nursing. The school will no longer offer residential services or student life programming.

Bishop David Choby, after consultation with his medical team and his family, has been transferred from Saint Thomas West Hospital to a location where his medical care will continue.

The Diocese of Nashville is dispensing the obligation to abstain from eating meat as required under Lenten Regulations in recognition of the celebration of the feast day of St. Patrick on Friday, March 17, 2017. Those who do not abstain from eating meat under this dispensation are encouraged to substitute another penitential, sacrificial or charitable act.

With an eye towards graduating from Aquinas College in May, senior Wil Bernhard already knows what he wants to do next. It doesn’t involve sending out resumes or pounding the pavement searching for a job. Instead, he is drawn to a higher calling – to join the Dominican Province of St. Joseph and begin his seminary studies to become a Dominican priest. 

Organizers are busy planning the 2017 Seminarian Education Benefit Auction and Dinner, which will be held 6-9 p.m. Tuesday, May 23, at Holy Family Church in Brentwood.

In early February, Karen Phillips, assistant head of school, dean of studies and social studies teacher at Pope John Paul II High School, received the Christ the Teacher award from the Diocese of Nashville Catholic Schools Office. The award is given each year to an outstanding educator in the diocese.

WASHINGTON. Within hours of President Donald Trump’s new executive order March 6 banning arrivals from six majority-Muslim nations, Catholic and other religious groups joined secular leaders in questioning the wisdom of such a move, with others vowing to oppose it outright.  

Catholics living in the metro Nashville area have no problem finding a church nearby. But in some of the rural areas of the diocese’s 38 counties in Middle Tennessee, there is no Catholic church at all and in others the parishes are too small to accommodate a growing community.

Paying for a Catholic school education can be a sacrifice for many families, and the requests for tuition assistance far outpaces the ability of schools in the diocese to meet them.

On Feb. 11, the prison ministry at Holy Family Church in Brentwood held their first annual retreat with inmates at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.