Author: Paul Wirth

While our Holy Father has bestowed this honor of bringing Monsignor Cieniewicz into membership in the papal household, he is emblematic and exemplary of all the clergy of the Diocese of Allentown., Bishop Schlert said.

It was February 1973, and time to get ready for Our Lady of Mount Carmel School’s “Spring...

There’s a new idea taking root around the Diocese that might change the way some parishes provide religious education — and might even help keep young people and families from falling away from the Church.

It was 10 years ago today, on March 13, 2013, that Pope Francis first stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica and greeted the world.

Friends of Catholic Charities gathered March 12 for fellowship and to support the good works of the social services agency at the 15th Catholic Charities Gala at DeSales University, Center Valley.

Father Robert George, pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Summit Hill, was named “Top Fundraising Chef” and Father Dominic Pham, pastor of St. Mary Parish, Ringtown, and St. Joseph Parish, Sheppton, was named “Top Party Chef.”

Hiking 15 to 20 miles per day, starting at 5:30 a.m. and finishing by 1 p.m. to avoid Spain’s brutal summer heat, gave him plenty of time in silence to think and to pray.

Bishop Alfred Schlert has joined many other bishops around the country in granting a dispensation to the faithful in the Diocese of Allentown this year, provided they abstain from meat on the day before or the day after March 17.