St. Boniface Church has always been one of the most beautiful houses of worship in the Archdiocese — and city — of Louisville.

Now, after a $425,000 cleaning and restoration project, the church at 531 E. Liberty St. is more beautiful than ever. And in completing the six-month project, the historic church — it’s the oldest extant parish in the city — has added some additional artifacts to its already impressive collection. 

An Ursuline Sisters’ celebration last Sunday was like a trip back in time to what Louisville was like 152 years ago.

It also was a time for recognizing the contributions of the Ursulines and their impact on the Catholic Church and the lives of countless people. 

SPRINGFIELD, Ky. — The sixth annual Ignite Your Torch Catholic youth conference was launched July 22 at St. Catharine College with an energetic, entertaining and motivational address from a Dominican priest not so far removed from his own younger days.

Father James Cuddy is chaplain at Providence College in Rhode Island, where he graduated in 1998. He spent a little more than a year in Louisville as a deacon and then a newly-ordained Dominican priest at St. Louis Bertrand Church.

In his presentation, Father Cuddy noted that there were times in his youthful past when he “tiptoed around the house on Sunday morning, thinking that maybe if I didn’t wake my parents, I wouldn’t have to go to Mass.”