Radcliff, Hardin Co.
Established 1958
Registrations: 410
PARISH OFFICE
1225 S. Wilson Rd., Radcliff, Ky. 40160-1641
Phone: (270) 351-3706
FAX: (270) 351-2843
E-mail: church@stchristopherparish.org
Web Site: www.stchristopherparish.org/
CLERGY
Pastor: Rev. Dennis L. Cousens
Permanent Deacons: Joseph D. Calvert, Harry Prestwood
MASS SCHEDULE
Sundays — Sat vigil: 5 p.m.; Sun: 9 a.m., 11 a.m.
Holy Days — See bulletin
Daily — Tue, Fri: 9 a.m.; Wed, Thu: 6 p.m.
HISTORY
In the first days of the new parish of St. Christopher in 1958, just two years after the incorporation of the city of Radcliff, Mass was celebrated for some 100 families in the auditorium of the Radcliff Elementary School. Murphy’s Sandwich Shop was the site for meetings and confessions. Fundraising was almost immediately set in motion. After the acquisition of land, ground was broken on March 15, 1959, for an ambitious plan to build a church, a school and a rectory. Father Earl J. Rausch was the founding pastor. As the parish grew over the years, a new church building was constructed in 1982, during the pastorate of Father Ivo Cecil.
St. Christopher School opened for grades one to four in fall 1959, with sixty-seven students. Construction of the church was completed in 1960, and the school added grades six to eight. The following year, ground was again broken, this time for a convent for the Ursuline Sisters of Mount St. Joseph, who taught in the school. Because of declining enrollment, the school was closed in 2005.
Part of the mission of St. Christopher Catholic Church is to be “the universal church in miniature”—the spiritual support to the “old timers” of the parish as well as to those coming to the parish in military or government service. Members also reach out to the local community by civic action in collaboration with parishioners from Vine Grove and Elizabethtown. With about 700 parishioners, the parish remains an active, vital feature of the landscape of north Hardin County and an integral part of the mosaic of parishes in the Archdiocese of Louisville.