Lent is a 40-day season of prayer and penance meant to help convert the faithful’s minds and hearts back to God.

As devastating fires ravage homes, churches, and entire communities across Southern California, I urge everyone to join in prayer for an end to these destructive blazes. Let us lift up those who have been harmed, offering them not only our prayers but also our tangible support and compassion.

Everyone is welcome to attend the celebration, with liturgy in Spanish, English and other languages, sponsored by the Latino ministry of the Diocese of Pittsburgh and its Latino Catholic Apostolate. A special invitation has been extended to Catholic high schools to encourage young people to come, said Jorge Vela, coordinator of the ministry.

On Friday, November 29, 2024 at 8:30 a.m., Bishop David Zubik and Christians from across the Pittsburgh area will partner with Amen to Action to pack meals for the needy at North Catholic High School. This is the final of 12 food packing events held at local Christian organizations in November 2024. Everyone is invited to attend.

During the season of Advent, which begins Sunday, December 1, 2024, Christians focus on prayer and the sacraments to prepare their hearts to receive Jesus at Christmas. This Advent season leads up to Jubilee 2025, a special year of grace called for by Pope Francis as a time to be renewed in hope.

The Christian Leaders Fellowship, an ecumenical group of local bishops and denominational leaders, will lead a prayer service at the annual dedication of the Pittsburgh Crèche, on Thursday, November 21, 2024, at noon in the plaza in front of US Steel Tower on Grant Street, Downtown.

On Monday, October 7, 2024, we mark the one-year anniversary of the Israel-Hamas war. I am asking all people of faith to pray and fast for a just peace that includes the return of all hostages and for a commitment to end the bloody cycles of revenge. Pope Francis and Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, have asked for this day of prayer, fasting and penance.

Everyone who calls Earth home, and especially the peoples of the Holy Land, needs world leaders who will seek solutions to longstanding differences through means other than terrorism, vengeance and war.

The new deacons come from parishes located in Allegheny, Beaver, Butler and Washington counties. Upon their ordination, Bishop Zubik will assign them to ministries that may be in their own parish, a nearby parish or in a specialized ministry outside of a parish.

Michelle Peduto, who successfully led the Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Pittsburgh through both the planned challenges of a diocesan-wide school reorganization and the unplanned cataclysm of COVID, died of cancer on August 13 at her home in Sewickley.

Jarett Kuhns will be the new principal of Archangel Gabriel School in Robinson. For more than a decade, he has served Catholic schools in West Virginia and Ohio as a principal, teacher, interim special education director and department chair, giving him wide experience to draw upon.

On Friday evening, as part of the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Paris, a parody of The Last Supper was deliberately presented as entertainment. For Catholics, and by extension to all people of other Christian traditions. it was an insult. But much more, it was a sacrilege!

Bishop David Zubik and auxiliary Bishops Mark Eckman and William Waltersheid are traveling with two busloads of pilgrims from the Diocese of Pittsburgh, headed to the National Eucharistic Congress July 17-21, 2024 in Indianapolis.

Our hearts are heavy with the news that a man from Butler, a former fire chief known for his courage and commitment to his community, lost his life while heroically shielding his wife and daughters from harm.

We are deeply shocked by news reports of the shooting at a political rally for former President Trump right across the street from one of our churches in Butler County.

Bishop David Zubik has appointed Dr. Zeb Jansante as principal of North Catholic High School, effective July 1, 2024.

Bishop David A. Zubik, Diocese of Pittsburgh, will ordain four men to the priesthood during a Mass of Ordination on Saturday, June 29, 2024, at 10 a.m. at Saint Paul Cathedral in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood.

Bishop David Zubik has appointed William Merchant as principal of Seton LaSalle Catholic High School effective July 1, 2024.

Bishop David Zubik will celebrate Mass at Saint Paul Cathedral on June 16 for Catholic pilgrims who are carrying the Blessed Sacrament on foot from New Haven, Conn., to the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis. The pilgrims are passing through the Diocese of Pittsburgh June 12-19, participating in Masses and events at local parishes. A list is below

As we observe Memorial Day, we keep close in thought and prayer the souls of the brave women and men who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving in the United States military.