Plenty of food options at the ballpark for Catholics abstaining from meat on Opening Day

The Cleveland Indians home opener is scheduled to take place at Progressive Field on Friday, April 4, 2014 beginning at 3:05 p.m. For the Catholic community this is a Friday during the Season of Lent.

See local video - USCCB Migration Committee to travel to U.S. Mexico Border - March 30-April 1

To Remember Fallen Migrants, Highlight Human Consequences of Broken Immigration System Trip follows example of Pope Francis at Lampedusa; Border bishops will join Committee to celebrate Mass in remembrance of the dead; Immigration reform needed to end suffering, redeem the nation. WASHINGTON - The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Commi...

Pope Asks Mafia, “Stop Your Evil Ways” - See Video

  Pope Francis appealed to members of the Mafia during a prayer vigil with family members of innocent victims of Italian gangsters.    Watch the video below:  

Cleveland parish to host Open Meeting for local 'World Apostolate of Fatima' - March 29

  The Cleveland Diocesan Division of the World Apostolate of Fatima will be holding their annual Open Meeting at Cleveland's Mary Queen of Peace Parish on Saturday, March 29, 2014 at 1 p.m.

Fortune Magazine Names Pope "Greatest World Leader"

Francis Heads List of 50 Persons Chosen for "Energizing Their Followers and Making World Better The global business magazine has named Pope Francis the world's greatest leader in a world "starved for leadership," it says. The list of 50 men and women "some famous, others little known" have been chosen for "energizing their followers and makin...

Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord - March 25

NOT a Holy Day of Obligation The feast of the Annunciation, now recognized as a solemnity, was first celebrated in the fourth or fifth century. Its central focus is the Incarnation: God has become one of us. From all eternity God had decided that the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity should become human. Now, as Luke 1:26-38 tells us, the deci...

See video - "Lent brings time of devotion to faith, renunciation of sin," wrote Bishop Lennon

Wednesday the 5th of March was Ash Wednesday, a day that began a very special time in the life of our Church. Lent means many things to people, not least of which is the beginning of a spiritual journey leading us to the Feast of Easter Sunday--Jesus Christ is Risen from the dead. In the prayers of the Church for Ash Wednesday we receive a ri...