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Catholic Schools Week 2019 - Catholic Education: A Foundation for Success

Over the next four weeks, the Northeast Ohio Catholic e-newsletter will feature a story on Catholic schools as the Diocese of Cleveland prepares to join students, parents, educators and alumni across the country in celebration of Catholic Schools Week. Catholic Schools Week will take place Jan. 27 to Feb 2. It will focus on why Catholic schools ar...

Bishop Perez offers a National Migration Week message for the gift of migrants, immigrants and refugees

For more information on National Migration Week click HERE. This week marks the celebration of National Migration Week in the Catholic Church in the United States, an opportunity for us to reflect on the circumstances confronting migrants, including immigrants, refugees, children, and victims and survivors of human trafficking. This special we...

In Remembrance - Deacon James Paul Jr.

Bishop Nelson Perez will celebrate the funeral Mass for Deacon James Paul Jr. at 11 a.m. Jan. 12 at St. St. Aloysius-St. Agatha Parish, 10932 St. Clair Ave., Cleveland. Father J. Mark Hobson will be the homilist. The wake will begin with vespers at 3 p.m. on Jan. 11 in St. Aloysius-St. Agatha Church. The presider will be Auxiliary Bishop emeritus ...

U.S. bishops participate in weeklong retreat to focus on clergy abuse crisis

Cleveland Bishop Nelson Perez and other bishops from across the country are taking part in a weeklong retreat Jan. 2-8 at Mundelein Seminary in Illinois to pause in prayer as the Church seeks to respond to the clergy abuse crisis. Bishop Perez wrote a letter about the crisis that was published in the November/December issue of Northeast Ohio Ca...

U.S. Bishops Will Gather for Seven Days of Prayer and Reflection at Invitation of Pope Francis; Papal Preacher to Direct Retreat Taking Place January 2-8

WASHINGTON - Catholic bishops from across the United States will begin the new year taking part in a spiritual retreat for seven days at Mundelein Seminary January 2 to 8, 2019. Preacher to the Papal Household, Capuchin Friar Father Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M. Cap., will direct the retreat under the theme of ?He appointed Twelve, to be with ...

A statement from Bishop Nelson Perez on the passing of President George Herbert Walker Bush

Today we have lost a major figure in American history as our nation mourns the passing of George Herbert Walker Bush who served as the 41st president of the United States. A gracious and humble man who lived a life of service to others, President George H.W. Bush is remembered as a man of character, a husband and father who did his best to bring ab...

A Thanksgiving Message from Bishop Perez

My dear sisters and brothers in Christ, In the Gospel proclaimed on Thanksgiving Day, we hear the story of Jesus healing the 10 lepers. And while we might remember the nine who went on their way and did not return, the message for us today is to deeply consider the example of the 10th leper — the Samaritan — who returned to give thank...