Author: Katie Wagner

Image of Netta Sweetko, seated by her computer in the Echo offices

Meet Annetta Sweetko

If you’ve called in to The Catholic Echo offices—The Catholic Exponent before that—over the past 30 years, the subtle Texas twang you likely heard on the other end of the line belongs to Annetta “Netta” Sweetko, senior designer at The Catholic Echo.

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Cover of the October 2024 issue, featuring bishop bonnar blessing a statue at the Poor Clare campus in canton

From the Editor: October 2024

The Catholic Church recognizes four callings to vocation: the priesthood, religious life, married life and single life. By that definition, each of us has a vocation.

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75-year Jubilarian receives communion at her jubilee Mass. Photo by Brian Keith.

Sister Teresina Rosa- 75th Jubilee

Sister Teresina Rosa was born in Italy, in a town east of Naples, and entered the community of the Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1949. She took her first vows three years later and then went to Rome to continue her studies, before she was asked to join the community here in Youngstown in 1955.

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Father Raymond Paul- 62nd Jubilee

Father Raymond Paul, a retired priest, was ordained a priest for the Conventual Franciscans on March 3, 1962, by Archbishop Leo Binz, in St. Paul Cathedral, St. Paul, Minnesota, but has ministered in the Youngstown Diocese since 1970.

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