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There are a variety of ministries in which lay Catholics serve the Church. But when Mary Serbin and Randy Perrault answered the call, God had a slightly different path in mind for them. It’s a route marked by Interstates 40 and 75 and byways leading to rural destinations as drivers for the St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic.

Parishioners in all four Diocese of Knoxville deaneries met Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre and listened as he shared the Gospel and his outlook for the Catholic Church in East Tennessee during the week of Aug. 14, his first sojourn into the heart of the diocese since he was named its apostolic administrator.

The faithful of the Diocese of Knoxville are asked to pray as a community and individual for our future shepherd, that the Lord will help him to fill our minds and hearts with the truth of the Gospel, the power of the sacraments, and the desire to build up the Church.

All are invited to the closing session of the Tribunal of Inquiry for Father Patrick Ryan and evening prayer at the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul on Sept. 28 at 5:30 p.m.

After morning Mass on June 18, the parishioners of St. Augustine in Signal Mountain honored pastor Father John Dowling with a reception as he marked the 40th anniversary of his priestly ordination.

Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre of the Archdiocese of Louisville began a four-day journey across the Diocese of Knoxville on Monday, by celebrating the first of four deanery Masses and updating the faithful on his work as the diocese’s apostolic administrator.

The Diocese of Knoxville’s Office of Christian Formation hosted its annual RCIA Summer Conference at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Lenoir City on June 24. The conference theme was “Leading them Home: Catechetical and Pastoral Insights for the Divorced and Seeking.”

On the weekend of Aug. 12-13, the diocese will hold a special collection to support school tuition to help families provide their children a Catholic education.

You're invited! Archbishop Shelton Fabre, apostolic administrator for the Diocese of Knoxville, is scheduled to visit each of the four deaneries and celebrate Mass.

Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre, apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Knoxville, has announced a series of appointments to various consultative bodies which will assist him in the governance of the diocese until a new bishop is installed.

After a tragic arson fire displaced many offices of the agency in November 2021, Catholic Charities of East Tennessee has been moving back to its renovated and renewed Dameron Avenue headquarters in North Knoxville as spring changed to summer this year.

While the diocese awaits a new bishop to be named, the Holy See has appointed Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre of Louisville, Ky., to be the apostolic administrator of the diocese. Archbishop Fabre celebrated a Mass invoking the Holy Spirit for the Diocese of Knoxville on June 28 at the Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus in Knoxville.

June 27 letter from Archbishop Shelton Fabre of the Archdiocese of Louisville, who has been appointed apostolic administrator for the Diocese of Knoxville. Video of June 28 Mass homily and closing remarks.

Sister Mary Lisa Renfer, RSM, DO, has been nominated for Catholic Extension’s Lumen Christi Award for her work extending the healing ministry of Jesus to the poor as medical director of the St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic.

Cormac McCarthy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and Knoxville native who graduated from Knoxville Catholic High School in 1951, died June 13. He was 89. Although Mr. McCarthy was born in Rhode Island on July 20, 1933, he grew up in Knoxville as one of six children in an Irish Catholic family that relocated to East Tennessee when Mr. McCarthy’s father began working for TVA as a lawyer.

The Diocese of Knoxville has announced that Mary Ann Deschaine, Ed. S., has accepted the position of superintendent of Catholic schools in the Diocese of Knoxville.

Pope Francis’ encyclical inspires East Tennessee Catholics ‘to achieve climate and ecological justice’

The universal Church is about to become more acquainted with Servant of God Father Patrick Ryan now that a film exists depicting his life story. “Father Ryan: A Higher Call” premiered on April 15 at Notre Dame High School in Chattanooga.

On Sunday, May 7, Bishop Richard F. Stika announced the new priest assignments.

Jesus Christ invites us to return to the source and summit of our faith: his Real Presence in the Eucharist. This is the beginning of a sustained movement to bring hope to the hopeless and peace to our broken world through deep, personal, and shared experiences with our Lord, Jesus in the Eucharist. And you're invited!