Twin sisters Daniela and Mariana Villalta so enjoyed attending the Steubenville St. Paul youth conference last year that they hoped to return this year.
Deacon Drake McCalister, a former Pentecostal minister, has been given approval by the Vatican to be ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Steubenville.
Franciscan Father David Pivonka, the newly elected president of Franciscan University in Steubenville, has assumed his leadership duties immediately, and his formal inauguration will take place later this year.
Franciscan Father Michael Scanlan, whose name is almost synonymous with the Franciscan University of Steubenville, died Jan. 7 at Garvey Manor, a Catholic nursing home in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, after a long illness. He was 85.
Summer weekend spent hearing dynamic presentations and spending time in prayer, workshops and fun with hundreds of young people has a positive impact on the practice of the faith by youth today.
Young people attending the Steubenville North youth conference find encouragement to consider discerning if they are being called to a life as a priest or religious.
