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Traditional Recipes Flavor Parish Festival

Traditional Recipes Flavor Parish Festival Ascension Parish uses 50-year-old Italian meatball and sauce recipes from late parishioner Gladys Peltier to draw many to its well-known parish festival. Dedicated volunteers, led by Cathy Duez, gather days before the festival to hand-roll…

International Priests Serve as US Missionaries

International Priests Serve as US Missionaries By Jordan Whiteko Multimedia Content Manager   For decades, the Diocese of Greensburg sent missionary priests to different parts of the world to share the Catholic faith and American culture. During the ’80s, ’90s…

Car Cruises

Passion for Cars Drives Visitors to Parish Cruises, shows By Jerry Zufelt Editor The devotion to the American automobile continues to bring people to parish car cruises for a day of summer fun and fundraising. At St. James Parish in…

Parish Festivals

Parish Festivals Blend Faith and Fun By Jerry Zufelt Editor Parish festivals bring communities of faith together and can also bring the wider community to the faith. One festival brings nearly 10,000 people annually to a small parish in Crabtree…

Vacation Bible School: Finding Summer Joy

Vacation Bible School Finding Summer Joy By Robin Mull Director of Marketing Parishes throughout the diocese teach children about the word of God every summer in Vacation Bible School. “The significance of Vacation Bible School is that the children are…