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The Diocese of Knoxville has been serving students with special learning needs for more than 20 years. “We’ve had huge successes with meeting the learning needs of all of our students,” Dr. Prater said.

Please pray for the citizens of Ukraine who are living in difficult and dangerous times right now.  I offer my prayers that peace and freedom, which is rightfully theirs, return to them soon.

On Tuesday, Feb. 22, the Diocese of Knoxville, and Bishop Stika were named as defendants in a lawsuit filed in Knox County Circuit Court.

In its 37th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, Gatorade on Jan. 11 announced Devyn Dunn of Knoxville Catholic High School as its 2021-22 Gatorade Tennessee Volleyball Player of the Year and on Jan. 31 announced Keegan Smith of KCHS as its 2021-22 Gatorade Tennessee Boys Cross Country Player of the Year.

Dozens of refugees come to East Tennessee each year through Bridge Refugee Services, the only resettlement agency for the area, with offices in Knoxville and Chattanooga.

During Catholic Schools Week, students from kindergarten through 12th grade in Diocese of Knoxville schools participated in an essay contest, writing on what Catholic school means to them and the impact of Catholic education in their lives.

Freezing rain and the threat of black ice over the long Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend Jan. 15-17 did little to stop hundreds of faithful Catholics from visiting St. Jude School in Chattanooga to see the awe-inspiring exhibit of eucharistic miracles displayed in the school’s cafeteria.

Bishop Stika has issued the following statement on the appointment of Bishop Shelton Fabre to the Archdiocese of Louisville following Pope Francis' acceptance of Archbishop Joseph Kurtz's retirement.