Author: Paul Wirth

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.

Father Stephan Isaac, who is chaplain of Allentown Central Catholic High School and assistant pastor of the Cathedral of St. Catharine of Siena, appeared with a Jewish rabbi, a Muslim imam, and the pastor of a newly formed Christian congregation.

Late Night Lent – a popular video series presented by the Diocese each year – has returned with a series of conversations with lay leaders of various ministries in the Diocese.

In solidarity with the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Bishop Alfred Schlert invites the faithful of the Diocese of Allentown to join in a day of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving on Friday, Feb. 24.

Think of the 40 days of Lent as a time of choosing the right spiritual food, Bishop Alfred Schlert told children gathered at his traditional Ash Wednesday school Mass.

Operation Rice Bowl, an annual giving program that began in the Diocese of Allentown 48 years ago, is a great way to answer the Church’s call for almsgiving during Lent.

When Jesus asks us to turn the other cheek and love our enemies, it makes me think he probably never spent any time driving a car on the roads these days.