This year, February 14 is also Ash Wednesday, one of the most sacred days of the year for all Christians. Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent, a 40-day season of prayer and penance meant to help convert our minds and hearts back to God, who is the source of all love.
Pittsburgh City Council passed a proclamation on Tuesday, January 30, 2024, commending the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh for its commitment to excellent spiritual and academic education as it celebrates Catholic Schools Week.
The 2024 superintendent’s report for Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Pittsburgh shows that schools that are thriving, with 2023 test scores exceeding national standards by wide margins.
After nearly five years of leadership as Superintendent of Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Michelle Peduto has made the heartfelt decision to retire from her position effective June 30, 2024
Auxiliary Bishop William Waltersheid will celebrate a festive Our Lady of Guadalupe Mass on the evening of Tuesday, December 12, 2023, in Saint Paul Cathedral, Oakland.
Auxiliary Bishop William Waltersheid will celebrate a festive Our Lady of Guadalupe Mass on the evening of Tuesday, December 12, 2023, in Saint Paul Cathedral, Oakland.
Auxiliary Bishop William Waltersheid will celebrate a festive Our Lady of Guadalupe Mass on the evening of Tuesday, December 12, 2023, in Saint Paul Cathedral, Oakland.
Advent, the season when Christians prepare their hearts to receive Jesus anew at Christmas, is a time of prayer and return to the sacraments of confession and the Eucharist. This year preparations coincide with the National Eucharistic Revival and with the diocesan emphasis on evangelization through The Church Forward!.
Bishop David Zubik is out of surgery and is in recovery. His surgeon indicated that everything went as expected. The bishop will be in the hospital for a few days and then continue his recovery at the Pastoral Center.
The background to the new Vatican probe is a widening Italian scandal popularly known as dossieraggio, meaning the use of confidential and illicitly obtained information to compiles damaging dossiers...
“In the Vatican, we are still suffering greatly from the disappearance, more than forty years ago, of one of our citizens, Emanuela Orlandi, who was fifteen years old at the time,” Pope Francis said.
Organizers of Pope Francis’s ongoing Synod of Bishops on Synodality announced Thursday that ten different working groups had been formed in the Roman Curia to address specific topics that came out of...