World Youth Day ‘life-changing’ for diocesan pilgrims

Youth from East Tennessee among 3 million people who traveled to Poland to see Pope Francis By Bill Brewer As some 3 million pilgrims from around the globe descended on Poland July 26-31 for World Youth Day 2016, including a half-dozen from the Diocese of Knoxville, there was not a …

Pilgrims witness history as Popes John XXIII, John Paul II canonized

Bishop Stika, Cardinal Rigali celebrate Masses in Rome with Diocese of Knoxville group  Among the hundreds of thousands of Catholic faithful in St. Peter’s Square on Divine Mercy Sunday to witness history as Popes John XXIII and John Paul II were canonized were a group of parishioners from the Diocese …