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.

Bishop David Zubik has made several clergy appointments.

Bishop David A. Zubik, Bishop of Pittsburgh, is making the announcement of the following clergy appointments.

Bishop David A. Zubik, Bishop of Pittsburgh, is making the announcement of several clergy appointments.

Bishop David A. Zubik, Bishop of Pittsburgh, makes several clergy appointments.

Bishop David A. Zubik, Bishop of Pittsburgh, makes several clergy appointments.