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EVANSVILLE — The Rev. Robert “Bob” S. Nemergut, 82, senior priest of the Diocese of Evansville, died Feb. 15, 2024, in Jasper.

During his episcopal Ordination Mass Sept. 26, Bishop Slawomir Szkredka’s homeland suddenly felt a lot closer as the names of a few fellow countrymen rang out inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

Little did I know that when Sr. Monica Jaciuk came from Argentina in 2003 to minister in our Order of St. Basil the Great province in Philadelphia, she would become a close friend and partner in many of our projects. 

Pope Francis has tapped three LA diocesan priests and a local Capuchin to be the Archdiocese of LA's newest auxiliary bishops.

The Catholic Marian pilgrim will find much in every corner of Poland.

Bishop Richard Stika of Knoxville, Tennessee, is being investigated by the Vatican over his leadership style and possible mishandling of abuse cases. As the investigation has lingered for months, lay Catholics tell NCR the diocese is a "hot mess." Stika says he has helped the diocese grow and points to his fundraising success.

More recently, the seminary has been involved in a controversy with its former chancellor, the Rev. Miroslaw Krol, accused in a lawsuit of sexually harassing staffers. In the 2020 suit, two men claim Krol pressured them for sex and in an earlier stint at Orchard Lake recruited seminarians from Poland to study and then invited them to sex parties in Detroit, where the sex wasnt always consensual. Krol has denied the allegations. Stephen Gross, chairman of the Board of Regents of Orchard La...

SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake to close next year The Detroit News View Comments An Oakland County seminary that has trained generations of Polish priests over its 136-year history will close next year. Officials with SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake announced Thursday the school will cease operations at the end of the 2021-22 academic year. The Board of Regents for Orchard Lake Schools, which shares a campus with the seminary, cited several reasons for the de...

A former longtime teacher claims Orchard Lake St. Marys Preparatory High School fired him after he relayed a students account of being sexually assaulted by older classmates.   Donald Ambrose taught literature at the Catholic school for more than 20 years until May 2019. He claims in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday that he was fired after pressing school officials to investigate the assault, which occurred on a weekend religious retreat. The school, which had enrolled only boys until 2020,�...

Dec 18, 2020 catholic news service Priests and seminarians of the Orchard Lake Schools, a private Catholic institution originally known as the "Polish Seminary" in Orchard Lake, Mich., participate in a procession on campus in 2014. (Credit:Michael Stechschulte/Detroit Catholic via CNS.) The chancellor of the Orchard Lake Schools in Michigan is on administrative leave after a lawsuit filed in federal court Dec. 14 alleged he pressured two employees into sexual activities and retaliated against t...