Greensburg Bishop Lawrence E. Brandt issued the following statement in response to the preliminary injunction granted June 20, 2014, by U.S. District Court Judge Arthur Schwab in the Diocese of Greensburg’s lawsuit against the HHS Mandate. I am pleased that U.S. District Court Judge A

The Fortnight for Freedom: Freedom to Serve will take place from June 21 to July 4, a time when our liturgical calendar celebrates a series of great martyrs who remained faithful in the face of persecution by political power—St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher, St. John the Baptist, S

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From CatholicPhilly.com, By Matthew Gambino The Archdiocese of Philadelphia and its Catholic Charities affiliates sued three agencies of the U.S. federal government Monday, June 2, seeking relief from the so-called “HHS mandate.” The regulations of the health care reform law require a

GREENSBURG — The Diocese of Greensburg and Bishop Lawrence E. Brandt filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on Tuesday, May 27, claiming the regulation known as the “HHS Mandate” infringes on the Church’s religious liberty. CLICK HERE TO READ A

“Utterly amazing” are the words Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett used to describe what it was like to meet Pope Francis face-to-face before a crowd of 100,000 onlookers in Saint Peter’s Square in Rome. “I’ve met presidents. Those meetings were quite impressive,” he said, “but meeting

We All Have a Role in Protecting Children  April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month and the Catholic dioceses of Pennsylvania are reminding everyone everywhere that we must work together to ensure our children are protected and safe. Church teaching reminds us that every child i

From Lancaster Online – At 10 a.m. Tuesday, when the marshal cries the U.S. Supreme Court into session and Chief Justice John Roberts and eight associate justices take their seats behind a raised mahogany bench for oral arguments, the national spotlight will fall upon Hahn, 77,

Philadelphia, Pa.–A Special Prayer Service for Peace in Ukraine was held Sunday, March 16, 2014 at 5 pm in the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception here. Archbishop Stefan Soroka, of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, and Metropolitan of the

From Metropolitan Stefan Soroka of the Archeparchy of Philadelphia –  Throughout the world, people are watching in horror at the surreal scenes of violence and brutality on the streets of Kyiv and other cities throughout Ukraine.  The images of confrontation and killing, of wide