On Monday, October 7, 2024, we mark the one-year anniversary of the Israel-Hamas war. I am asking all people of faith to pray and fast for a just peace that includes the return of all hostages and for a commitment to end the bloody cycles of revenge. Pope Francis and Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, have asked for this day of prayer, fasting and penance.
Everyone who calls Earth home, and especially the peoples of the Holy Land, needs world leaders who will seek solutions to longstanding differences through means other than terrorism, vengeance and war.
The new deacons come from parishes located in Allegheny, Beaver, Butler and Washington counties. Upon their ordination, Bishop Zubik will assign them to ministries that may be in their own parish, a nearby parish or in a specialized ministry outside of a parish.
Michelle Peduto, who successfully led the Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Pittsburgh through both the planned challenges of a diocesan-wide school reorganization and the unplanned cataclysm of COVID, died of cancer on August 13 at her home in Sewickley.
Jarett Kuhns will be the new principal of Archangel Gabriel School in Robinson. For more than a decade, he has served Catholic schools in West Virginia and Ohio as a principal, teacher, interim special education director and department chair, giving him wide experience to draw upon.
On Friday evening, as part of the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Paris, a parody of The Last Supper was deliberately presented as entertainment. For Catholics, and by extension to all people of other Christian traditions. it was an insult. But much more, it was a sacrilege!
Bishop David Zubik and auxiliary Bishops Mark Eckman and William Waltersheid are traveling with two busloads of pilgrims from the Diocese of Pittsburgh, headed to the National Eucharistic Congress July 17-21, 2024 in Indianapolis.
Our hearts are heavy with the news that a man from Butler, a former fire chief known for his courage and commitment to his community, lost his life while heroically shielding his wife and daughters from harm.
We are deeply shocked by news reports of the shooting at a political rally for former President Trump right across the street from one of our churches in Butler County.
An association representing the opposite end of the spectrum in the Vatican from cardinals – the rank-and-file laity in the workforce, not the clerical pinnacle – is warning that recent cuts to...
Two private citizens who filed a criminal complaint against a Vatican official investigating a scandal-plagued Peruvian group have announced that the case has reached a phase in which it will likely...
Members of the pope’s abuse watchdog body have said they find long wait times for victims who have lodged a complaint and a lack of information available on their cases to be of great concern, with...