News of the Diocese

Ohio Opportunity Scholarship Program seeks to expand parental choice

SB 85 seeks to help low and middle income families send their children to the school of their choice A new school choice proposal, Sen. Matt Huffman?s Opportunity Scholarship Program, seeks to help

Professed religious in the diocese mark jubilees with liturgy, lunch

Nearly 100 members of religious communities from throughout the Diocese of Cleveland celebrated their 75th, 70th, 60th, 50th and 25th jubilees at a special liturgy and luncheon on April 22 at the Center for Pastoral Leadership in Wickliffe. Bishop Roger Gries, auxiliary bishop emeritus of the diocese, noted that if all their years of service and m...

Special liturgy celebrates 170th anniversary of the Diocese of Cleveland

Nearly a dozen priests concelebrated the noon Mass on April 24 at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist to mark the 170th anniversary of the Diocese of Cleveland. Principal celebrant and homilist was Father John Manning of the Office for Senior Priests. Father Manning used the Bishop Rappe chalice at the Mass. The historic chalice was used by B...

May 2017 luncheon speakers for the First Friday Clubs are announced

The three First Friday Club luncheon speakers series in the Diocese of Cleveland will hold their respective luncheons beginning at noon on Thursday, May 4 and at noon on Friday, May 5. Father Robert Jasany, pastor, St. John Nepomucene Parish, Cleveland, will be the guest speaker at the First Friday Club of Cleveland on Thursday, May 4. [wpfilebase...

Divine Mercy Sunday is April 23

This week is what is known on the Church?s liturgical calendar as the Octave of Easter. Basically what that means is the Church celebrates the great feast of Easter for eight days. The octave will conclude next Sunday, April 23, on the Second Sunday of Easter. As of the year 2000, however, a new feast was added to the calendar that coincides wit...

Awareness Sunday: The first step to ending the heroin crisis

Cleveland area religious leaders to devote their sermons to opioid awareness CLEVELAND, Ohio - On Sunday, April 23, over 550 religious leaders, from Protestant to Catholic and Jewish to Baptist, are bringing the topic of heroin to their congregations throughout Northeast Ohio. In a coordinated effort, these leaders are devoting their sermons to r...

Diocese of Cleveland celebrates its 170th anniversary on April 23

The Diocese of Cleveland will mark the 170th anniversary of its establishment at the noon Mass on April 24 at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in downtown Cleveland. When the diocese was established by Pope Pius IX in a papal bull issued on April 23, 1847, the city of Cleveland was only 51 years old. Ohio had become a state just 44 years e...