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Clergy Assignment Changes - March 15, 2017

Father Michael J. Troha, pastor, St. Ignatius of Antioch Parish, Cleveland was appointed spiritual director for the Cleveland West Comitium of the Legion of Mary effective immediately. This appointment is in addition to his appointment as pastor of St. Ignatius of Antioch Parish, Cleveland. Father Paul J. Rosing, pastor, Holy Family Parish, Stow ...

Fifth annual Evening of Confession draws faithful to reconciliation

Priests across the Diocese of Cleveland spent three hours, 5-8 p.m., on Wednesday, March 15, in the confessionals at every church in the diocese for the fifth annual Evening of Confession. For the first time, the neighboring Diocese of Youngstown also participated. ?This is definitely something that I think we should continue to do,? said Father S...

Faithful to celebrate St. Patrick's Day Mass before 175th annual parade

Back in 1842, five years before the Diocese of Cleveland was established, Father Peter McLaughlin organized the earliest-known St. Patrick?s Day Parade in the city. Father McLaughlin, a proponent of temperance (abstaining from alcohol), was Cleveland?s third resident priest. The celebration began with Mass at St. Mary?s on the Flats, the only Catho...

In Remembrance - Reverend Thomas R. Dunphy

Father Thomas R. Dunphy Bishop Roger Gries will be the main celebrant at the 11 a.m. funeral Mass on March 16 at St. Martin of Tours Church, 1800 Station Road, Valley City for Father Thomas R. Dunphy. Father Norman Douglas will be the homilist. Father Dunphy, who was 86, died on March 11. He was pastor of St. Martin of Tours Parish and had serve...

Archdiocese announces beatification date for Oklahoma priest

WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City announced that one its native sons, Father Stanley Rother, a North American priest who worked in Guatemala and was brutally murdered there in 1981, will be beatified Sept. 23 in Oklahoma. "It's official! Praised be Jesus Christ! Archbishop Coakley received official word this morning from Rome tha...

Bishops say U.S. must address needs of immigrants, show compassion

WASHINGTON (CNS) - While one Catholic archbishop was urging a fix to the country's immigration laws before a Catholic crowd, another was pleading with the government not to separate mothers from their children while in immigration detention, and yet another, a cardinal, was accompanying a grandfather to an appointment that could have resulted in hi...

Priests and marriage: Pope's response not so new after all

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - While Pope Francis' recent comments on the subject of married priests made headlines around the world, his response falls clearly in line with the thinking of his predecessors. In an interview with German newspaper Die Zeit, published in early March, Pope Francis was asked if allowing candidates for the priesthood to fall in l...