Our Lady of Sorrows’ (OLS) parishioners are helping the Catholic Center of Concern by filling several hundred brown paper grocery bags with donated groceries.

The St. Elizabeth Ann Seton-Gardendale/St. Henry-Warrior Middle and High School Youth Groups prepared care packages for our diocesan seminarians at a recent gathering.

A team of Our Lady of Sorrows (OLS) volunteers spent Halloween morning adding treats to lunches they prepared for the food insecure.

In October, Father Wyman Vintson, Vicar for Vocations, led a group of men from the Diocese of Birmingham to the Pontifical College Josephinum for a Come and See Seminary Live-In Weekend.

Diocese of Birmingham November Events Calendar 2021

The morning of Saturday, Aug. 28, blossomed into a picturesque day for the diocesan celebration of Bishop Steven J. Raica’s seventh anniversary of episcopal ordination.

The diocesan Year of the Parish and the Eucharist was the primary focus of the Behold, I Make All Things New conference, which took place Aug. 13–14.

The friars and sisters of the Fraternity of Poor of Jesus Christ were marking the community’s 20th anniversary.

Parish music directors and musicians gathered for the 2021 Diocesan Sacred Music Convocation.

On Saturday, Oct.17, at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, over 800 young people and parish leaders from 28 parishes around the Diocese of Birmingham gathered to encounter our Lord more deeply in the Eucharist and to encounter one another.

28 years ago Father Patrick Cullen hired Rose Marie Rouss to be the Cathedral rectory cook.

Bishop Raica opened the diocesan phase of Synod 2021-2023, “For a Synodal Church."

Sister Margaret Mary “Meg” Majewski, O.P., died Sept. 29, 2021, at St. Dominic Villa, Hazel Green, Wis.

The little ones learned quite a bit from the Homewood Fire Department during their visit to Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School.

The Diocese of Birmingham is sponsoring four regional evenings of prayer as part of the diocesan phase of the Synod on Synodality.

Bishop Raica visited the Catholic Center of Concern in Tuscaloosa on Sept. 17 to participate in their volunteer appreciation event.

Deacon Deering visited the 4th grade classes at Holy Spirit in Tuscaloosa.

St. Bernard Prep School in Cullman invites families interested in attending St. Bernard to a day-long open house, giving prospective students and their parents a firsthand look at the school’s academic programs, instructors, facilities, and more.

On Sept. 29, Bishop Steven Raica traveled to Huntsville to bless the new location of Catholic Family Services Huntsville.

After taking a year off due to the COVID pandemic, over 300 parishioners were excited to gather on the campus of Mercy Parish in Madison for their annual parish picnic held Sunday, Sept. 26.

Seniors at Holy Spirit Catholic High School in Tuscaloosa traveled to True Vine Foundation in Eutaw on Sept. 29 for their Senior Retreat.

Father Thomas Kelly with Deacon Bob Martin welcome all to Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church for their annual Blessing of the Animals.

The Office of Vocations is sponsoring a "Come & See" Seminary Live-In Weekend.

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Remembering Father Anthony S. D’Angelo, S.D.B.