Recent parish mergers and site relegations in the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown are all pointing toward a larger trend of decreased membership and a lack of active priests in the diocese.

Several Catholic church buildings in Ashtabula, as well as Rootstown, are set to close for all sacred and religious ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — The Diocese of Youngstown announced two area parish mergers Saturday and says several churches will no longer hold mass. Several deaneries, or subdivisions of the Catholic ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – Bishop David Bonnar, other clergy and parishioers are on a pilgrimage to Rome. They are visiting ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — A Trumbull County priest has resigned from the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown. Father Michael Swierz resigned. He was serving as a priest for St. Patrick Parish in Hubbard, ...

YOUNGSTOWN − On the heels of a mass shooting of Catholic schoolchildren at a Minneapolis church, Catholic Diocese of Youngstown Bishop David Bonnar has created a task force to address safety practices ...

YOUNGSTOWN − Catholic Charities agencies in the Diocese of Youngstown have joined a national campaign to highlight life-giving services in local communities called "We Are There." Catholic Charities ...

Meet David Fischer, the new principal of Saint Paul School in the Diocese, bringing years of educational leadership and ...

YOUNGSTOWN − Churches in the Diocese of Youngstown are celebrating Catholic Charities this month. Catholic Charities is the diocese's administrative arm for social concerns. Representatives from ...

Richards has spent the past decade in Catholic and public-school administration and education, including the past six years ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WJW) — The Catholic Diocese of Youngstown in a statement on Tuesday denounced lewd and racist remarks from a comedian who graduated from its Youngstown high school, which were ...

CLEVELAND — On Thursday, 69-year-old Robert Prevost became the first American to be elected pope in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born missionary took the name Leo XIV, then ...