Students and their families enjoyed a fun night at Our Lady of Sorrows (OLS) Catholic School’s first-year Trunk or Treat event.

The fourth annual St. John Paul II Feast was celebrated on Friday, Oct. 22, at St. James Catholic Church in Gadsden.

On Oct. 28, St. Jude Catholic Church in Scottsboro celebrated the 50th anniversary of its dedication with Mass and the consecration of a new altar, which was made by Gene Hess of Dutton.

Students of Holy Spirit High School in Tuscaloosa held their annual “Honk 4 Life” on Oct. 15 for “Respect for Life” month.

The fourth graders at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School dressed in saintly attire as they celebrated All Saints Day with a special school-wide liturgy on Nov. 1.

On Saturday, Nov. 6, Zone 4 of the Gulf Coast District of the Knights of Peter Claver, Inc. hosted a beautiful Mass of Remembrance for Deceased Knights and Ladies and Founders Day Celebration at Holy Family Catholic Church in Ensley.

OLS families with young children and other parishioners turned out for the first parish-wide Fall Festival organized and hosted by the OLS Youth Ministry.

Catholic Engaged Encounter (CEE) of Birmingham had their leadership discernment retreat on Oct. 23.

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.

St. John Paul II Catholic High School held its 25th Anniversary Family Festival, kicking off its 25th Anniversary Year for Silver Celebration.

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.

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