Helping hands join the mask-making brigade

Diocese of Knoxville volunteers doing their part to combat the spread of coronavirus By Dan McWilliams Karen Vacaliuc of St. Mary Parish in Oak Ridge simply wanted to make face masks to help in the fight against the coronavirus, but her efforts landed her in a front-page article in The …

St. Mary-Oak Ridge marks 75th anniversary

The parish that was born in the Secret City in the ‘dark, dark hour’ of 1943 celebrates its milestone in style By Dan McWilliams In 1943, at the dawn of Oak Ridge, the Secret City of the Manhattan Project in World War II, a parish was born. Today that parish …

Conquest boys youth group helps strengthen faith

By Patrick Daigle Two of the seven Corporal Works of Mercy are feeding the hungry and giving water to the thirsty. On April 29, my Conquest group did just that. Conquest is a fifth- through eighth-grade youth group found across the country to help strengthen the Catholic faith in middle …