Editor’s note: The following article honoring the 175th anniversary of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston is written referencing a dissertation of Fr. James Francis Tierney’s “Biographical Notices of The Earliest Wheeling Priests,” when he was at St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore, and ...

WHEELING — Catholic education in West Virginia began four years before the diocese was founded in 1850 as schools were established to serve the growing Catholic immigrant population. Nine schools were established during the tenure of the Diocese of Wheeling’s first shepherd, Bishop Richard ...

PARKERSBURG — Parkersburg Catholic Schools is moving forward with a long-discussed plan to bring its elementary, middle and high school students together on a single campus. “It’s going to make this campus a unified campus from preschool all the way up to 12th grade,” Bishop Mark E. ...

SWEET SPRINGS — Faith and history are still celebrated in Sweet Springs. Each summer on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, faithful Catholics and visitors to Monroe County get together to honor Mary and local history, and pay tribute to the pioneering priests, religious figures and ...

HARPERS FERRY — Master carpenter Ray Smith, a member of St. James the Greater in Charles Town, is painstakingly securing the foundation, tediously inspecting trusses and stabilizing the St. Joseph side of the sanctuary of the historic St. Peter’s Church in Harpers Ferry. As with any old ...

CHARLESTON – Months after West Virginia’s highest court stayed a ruling by a Raleigh County circuit judge allowing for religious exemptions to the state’s compulsory vaccination law for school-age children, parties in the case are making their case for the lower court ruling to be ...