Parish Missions

About the Good Shepherd Mission Chapel McCreary County is located in Appalachia in Southern Kentucky 10 miles north of the Tennessee border, in the Cumberland Lake area; and is south of Somerset, Kentucky. McCreary County is the poorest county in the United States according to the IRS. Many of the...

About St. Leo the Great Parish St. Leo the Great Parish is where foreign mission meets home mission. Located in the South Fairmount neighborhood, St. Leo Church was founded by German Catholic immigrants in 1886. Now it is home to a diverse group of parishioners that include immigrants and refugees...

About the St. Peter Upendo Community St. Peter Upendo Parish is in the resettlement area of Upendo (population 1,000) in Molo, Kenya.  This resettlement area was created in 2005 on land donated by the Catholic Archdiocese of Nakuru in the wake of brutal election violence. Following a turbulent history, many...