Double celebration marks dedication of St. Elizabeth Center in Lorain, record year for Catholic Charities Annual Appeal

Bishop Nelson Perez blessed the new St. Elizabeth Center in Lorain on Oct. 31 and celebrated the news that the 2017 Catholic Charities Annual Appeal exceeded its $12 million goal by raising $12.4 million from 48,542 donors -- the most in recent history. The double celebration was attended by more than 150 people at the newly completed facility at ...

St. Ignatius High School welcomes Bishop Nelson Perez for breakfast, Mass, tour on All Saints Day

?It?s like a mini United Nations here,? said Bishop Nelson Perez as he surveyed a dozen St. Ignatius High School students who gathered in the school?s board room on Nov. 1

Bishop Perez establishes new fund to assist children of Catholic educators

The Most Rev. Nelson J. Perez, Bishop of Cleveland, has created a new fund to provide tuition assistance for children of full-time employees of Catholic schools in the Diocese of Cleveland. The Catholic Diocese of Cleveland School Employee Tuition Assistance Fund, which will be managed by the Catholic Community Foundation, was established with a si...

Statement on the emerging crisis in Puerto Rico and the response by the Catholic Church

WASHINGTON—In a November 2 statement, Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, Chair of the USCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, and Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Anchorage, Alaska, Chairman of the USCCB Subcommittee on Catholic Home Missions, called on Catholics and people of good will across the United States to reme...

Opioid epidemic is target of religious education campaigns

Memorial services scheduled for Nov. 8 On the basis that nearly 3,500 people died in 2016 from opioid overdoses in Ohio, including hundreds in Greater Cleveland, a pair of religious-based efforts to counter the epidemic of opioid and heroin abuse are under way with special activities planned. The organization Understanding is Greater Than Heroin ...

Bishop Nelson Perez, USCCB speak out on killings of pedestrians, bicyclists in New York City

At least eight people were killed and 11 seriously injured the afternoon of Oct. 31 when a man driving a pickup truck plowed into pedestrians and cyclists on a bike path near the World Trade Center memorial in New York City. Read a story about the incident HERE. Cleveland Bishop Nelson Perez, who spent five years as an auxiliary bishop of the Dio...

Statement of Cleveland Bishop Nelson Perez concerning the terrorist attack on Oct. 31 in New York City

?As the unspeakable acts of terrorism such as the incident in New York City continue to plague our world, we turn to God and pray for peace and understanding in our times. As Jesus teaches us in today?s Gospel, ?blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.? I ask everyone in Northeast Ohio to join together with me in prayer ...