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Bishop Zubik announces the following clergy appointments: pastor; senior parochial vicar; parochial vicar; parish chaplain; in residence; retired priest with assignment; and deacon.

The green phase does not mean that everything is back to what we once knew as normal. All current diocesan reopening guidelines, outlined in the “Moving Forward Together Guide,” remain in effect until further notice. 

Watching a peaceful protest against racial injustice break down into violence in Pittsburgh, I am sending out an urgent call for calm as we work for justice.  I ask all believers to pray and act for peace, unity and that perfect balance of justice and mercy that is the hallmark of God’s work in our world.

Hundreds of preschool and kindergarten students have been starring in their own parades this month, riding in their family car around schools and churches as teachers stand and cheer.

Bishop David Zubik has accepted a formal recommendation by the Catholic High Schools of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Inc. (CHSDOP) Board of Directors to close Quigley High School effective at the end of the current school year.

After winning the 50/50 raffle at an Ash Wednesday Fish Fry, Laverne Johnson was sure that Jesus wanted her to use the winnings to do something special for him. Her faith resulted in a billboard of the Divine Mercy Image of Jesus that is impossible to miss on a drive through Burgettstown.

Fifteen groupings of parishes in the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh will merge on July 1, 2020, to create fifteen new parishes, Bishop David Zubik announced today. Sixty-one parishes are part of the mergers.

Fifty percent of Alpha graduates experience Christ in a personal way during the program and 80% of agnostic participants describe themselves as followers of Jesus by the program’s end.

Priests in the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh are preparing to begin offering daily Mass on Monday, June 1, and weekend Masses on June 6 and 7.

As he turns 90 today, May 20, retired Pittsburgh auxiliary Bishop William Winter says that his nearly 65 years of ordained priesthood “have all been happy.”

Bishop Zubik announces the following clergy appointment: special assignments; pastor; administrator; senior priest; senior parochial vicar; parochial vicar; chaplain; replacement ministry; residence; retired; and withdrawn from ministry.

Kate Wells and 40 other members of the cast and crew of “City of Man” were disappointed they couldn’t perform this year. But thanks to the generosity of supporters, the production still will benefit those in need.

Father Fred Cain traveled to St. Thomas à Becket Parish in Jefferson Hills on Saturday expecting simply to celebrate Mass, which is recorded every weekend for his parish grouping. What he received was perhaps the biggest surprise of his priesthood.

When staff and residents need spiritual care at the Beaver County nursing facility with Pennsylvania’s worst COVID-19 outbreak, they contact Father Bill Schwartz. Through phone calls, emails, texts, and Skype calls, the Pirates Chaplain gives prayer, advice, or a listening ear.

Fifty years ago, Father Leroy DiPietro and 19 other men were ordained as priests in the Diocese of Pittsburgh of Pittsburgh. His parish family made sure today’s surprise celebration was memorable.

When Jean Mosites wanted to help during the coronavirus pandemic, she sought expert advice from her daughter, an epidemiologist, who referred her to Catholic Charities.

"We are eager to return to the comfort of our Churches and join together in prayer as a source of spiritual strength to support us through the suffering and anxiety caused by the COVID-19 pandemic,” Bishop Zubik said.

“If you didn’t exist, the whole course of human history would be changed,” Marquez said.

While the parishes in Oakmont, Plum and Verona have been on lockdown, more people than ever have participated in their Masses, thanks in part to adapting their livestream for those without Internet.

In February, none of the four parishes had a food pantry. Now the three Beaver Valley parishes together distribute 300 meals daily, along with other supplies.