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Bishop celebrates the Rite of Election & Call to Continuing Conversion: Watch Video

Some 400 adult Catechumens and Candidates participated on Sunday, February 26th with Cleveland Bishop Richard Lennon in the "Rite of Election of Catechumens and Call to Continuing Conversion of Candidates."   More than 1400 people representing a majority of the 174 parishes across the eight counties of the Diocese attended the two Liturgies at...

Bishop Lennon calls for prayer for Chardon shooting victims

  The Catholic Community in the Diocese of Cleveland shares the grief of the families and friends of the five victims in the shootings Monday morning February 27th at Chardon High School.  We continue to struggle in disbelief with the horrifying nature of the incident and we look to God to bring us peace and comfort.   I...

Deadline approaching for Tabor Fund Grant applications

  Applications for Tabor Fund Grant Awards are now available for the 2012A cycle.  Awards are intended to provide an opportunity for ministers to refresh and/or re-energize their spirituality, faith, mind and/or physical well-being, as part of fostering personal development and improving their ministry.  Awards will be made in the fo...

Watch Bishop Lennon's Ash Wednesday homily from St. John's Cathedral / 10 things to remember during the Season of Lent

The Most Reverend Richard Lennon, Bishop of Cleveland celebrated the noon Mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist on Ash Wednesday. Click here to see more images from the Mass.   Click the player to the left to view the Bishop's homily.   Click here for Journey to the Foot of the Cross: Bishop Ricken (from the USCCB) Off...

Journey to the foot of the cross: Bishop Ricken offers 10 things to remember for Lent

(United States Conference of Catholic Bishops headquarters building in Washington D.C.)   WASHINGTON - Bishop David L. Ricken of Green Bay, Wisconsin, chairman of the Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), offers "10 Things to Remember for Lent" as the Church prepares to begin the season...

Catch a Lenten Fish Fry at a parish near you

The Catholic community observes meatless Fridays during the Season of Lent.  Many Catholic parishes thoughout the eight county Diocese of Cleveland offer Fish Fries and other meatless meals for their parish communities and the community at large.   Each year during Lent, the Secretariat for Parish Life and Development o...

2012 Catholic Charities Annual Appeal began February 18-19 - 100th Anniversary

  PLEASE NOTE: Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Cleveland DOES NOT view President Obama's "compromise" as a compromise at all or any kind of solution to the untenable situation the federal Health and Human Services mandate puts us in as Catholics.   Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Cleveland kicked-off this year's Annual Appeal at...