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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.

There will be a second collection after Masses this weekend, Sept. 16-17, to support the St. Mary's Legacy Clinic. This unique medical ministry provides care to the uninsured in rural East Tennessee.

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.

For those who want to assist with disaster relief for the victims of the wildfires in Maui, we ask that they donate to Catholic Charities Hawaii as they are closest to the grieving community and can best assist them with their immediate and more long term needs.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

El obispo Richard F. Stika, el obispo con más años de servicio de la Diócesis Católica Romana de Knoxville, anunció que se retirará del cargo que ha ocupado desde 2009.

Bishop Richard F. Stika, the longest-serving bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Knoxville, has announced he is retiring from the post he has held since 2009.

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.

John 6 is often called the Bread of Life Discourse because it is there in Scripture that Jesus talks about the importance of receiving Him as the Bread of Life to gain eternal life. Even as some followers are confused and turn away, He is resolute in this message. It is here, the Church teaches, that Jesus explains the power of the sacrament of the Eucharist.

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.

On April 12, students, clergy, and FOCUS missionaries celebrated evening Mass and then participated in a one-mile eucharistic procession on the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga campus.

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

Bishop Richard F. Stika has called to Holy Orders three transitional deacons to become priests of the Diocese of Knoxville at a Mass of Ordination on June 10 at the Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.