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A message from Bishop Perez marking the Week of Christian Unity

Catholic Diocese of Cleveland Bishop Nelson Perez offers a message marking this Week of Christian Unity. During this Week of Christian Unity in which Christians around the world take part in prayer for visible Christian unity,

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Religious sisters in Akron, Cleveland are visited by Bishop Perez

?God will do what God will do and it doesn?t really matter what we think. We have to embrace it.? Those were the words from Cleveland Bishop Nelson J. Perez on Jan. 16 as he celebrated the liturgy at the Our Lady of the Elms Motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters of Peace in Akron. He shared that once we promise obedience to God, we must be willin...

Jan. 22 Mass for Life will be streamed live on diocesan website, AM 1260

All are invited to the Diocese of Cleveland?s annual Mass for Life, which will take place at 10 a.m. Jan. 22 at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in downtown Cleveland. Bishop emeritus Martin Amos, a native of Cleveland and retired bishop of the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, will celebrate the Mass. He also will be the homilist. The Mass will...

Bishop Perez rallies pastors, parish volunteers as 2018 Catholic Charities Annual Appeal approaches

Organizers of the Catholic Charities Annual Appeal are having meetings throughout the diocese to share details of the 2018 Annual Appeal with pastors and parish volunteers. Bishop Nelson Perez has been attending the meetings, including one on Jan. 16 at Immaculate Conception Parish in Willoughby where he thanked attendees for making Catholic Charit...

Maria looks toward citizenship

Maria was 15 when she, her sister and mother arrived in the United States from Mexico in 2000. They never left after coming to visit her father, who had been living and working in the U.S. since 1991. Although she was not comfortable sharing too many details, Maria and her family settled in Greater Cleveland, where she attended public schools, gra...

Bishop delivers keynote address at Martin Luther King Jr. Day program

Bishop Nelson Perez spent his first Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the Diocese of Cleveland sharing thoughts on the late civil rights leader with a packed house at the Cleveland Public Library?s Martin Luther King Jr. Branch. The bishop was the keynote speaker at Drum Majors for Change, the library?s 33rd annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative...