Cincinnati Magazine
January 28, 2021
It’s 4 o’clock on a Tuesday and the dinner line outside Over-The-Rhine’s St. Anthony Center has already started to form. The Republic Street building owned and operated by the Franciscan Friars, a Catholic religious order of men has, since 2017, been a hub for multiple nonprofits serving the homeless and poor (among them, the Mary Magdalene House and the Center for Respite Care). But those lines forming at breakfast and dinnertime each day are for an organization dedicated to feeding the neighborhood’s hungry the St. Francis Seraph Ministries (SFSM) soup kitchen, in business since 1985.
Photograph by Aaron M. Conway