News Releases

Students in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades at Butler Catholic School in Butler will participate in online learning from now through Friday, January 22, 2021.  The move to remote learning is necessary due to staffing concerns resulting from close contact with someone associated with the school and who tested positive for COVID-19.

The 8th grade boys developmental basketball team at Saint Louise de Marillac Catholic School (Upper St. Clair, PA) has moved to virtual learning as a precaution after an individual associated with the team tested positive for COVID-19

With our whole community, I join in mourning the death of Joanne Rogers, a woman whose warmth and love was shared with her family and the entire Pittsburgh region.

The junior varsity and varsity girls’ basketball teams at two high schools in the Diocese of Pittsburgh will move to remote learning due to positive cases of COVID-19 from individuals associated with the teams. The situations at the schools are separate, unrelated, and not linked to any school-sponsored activities.

With a heavy heart, I have watched the unfolding, violent protests at our nation’s Capitol. To all of you, my sisters and brothers in southwestern Pennsylvania and beyond: I invite you to join me in prayer that our shared love for our nation will truly unite us. 

Saint Athanasius Church and Rectory (West View) will reopen on Monday, December 21st with the 8:30 am Mass after being closed since December 8, 2020, due to COVID-19 concerns linked to two positive test results.

I am thrilled for the faithful for the Diocese of Greensburg that Pope Francis has appointed one of their own clergy, Bishop-elect Larry Kulick, as the sixth Bishop of Greensburg.

Administrators at Bishop Canevin High School (Pittsburgh) have learned that two people associated with the school have tested positive for COVID-19. All Bishop Canevin students will move to remote learning effective immediately until their Christmas break which begins after school on Friday, December 18, 2020. 

Administrators at Saint Therese of Lisieux School (Munhall) learned today that a person involved with the first grade class has tested positive for COVID-19.  Out of an abundance of caution, first grade students will begin remote learning effective immediately and continue virtually until Friday, December 18, 2020 when their Christmas break begins

Out of an abundance of caution, all students at Butler Catholic and Saint Wendelin schools (Butler, PA) are adding remote learning days around the Christmas break.