Catholic Masses in the CMU area

Campus Masses

Duquesne University also has campus Masses. Here's the schedule I was told a while back:

• Saturday, 6:30 pm in the university chapel.
• Sunday, 11 am in the university chapel.
• Sunday, 9 pm in the university chapel.

Area Parishes and Oratories

• The Ryan Catholic Newman Center (also known as the Oratory) is the Roman Catholic Chaplaincy for CMU, Pitt, and Chatham. The Newman Center is at 4450 Bayard Street, in a new building that opened in November 1994. In addition to the sacraments, the Newman Center offers a number of fellowship programs that provide some nice ways to meet non-CS students, and to share and grow in the faith. (The Wednesday evening group has free food, too.) Note that the Newman Center is not a parish, so you may need to be registered elsewhere if you want to be considered a member of a parish. 681-3181.
• Saint Bede's, at Dallas and Wilkins serves the Squirrel Hill/Point Breeze area. 661-7222.
• Sacred Heart, at Shady and Walnut serves the Shadyside area, and offers a ``Last Chance Mass'' at 7:45PM Sunday evenings. (During the school year, there's also the 8PM Sunday Mass at CMU.) 661-0187.
• Saint Paul's Cathedral is right in the heart of Oakland, across from the SEI. 621-4951. Here's their mass schedule, as of 6 Dec 1995:
  • Saturday, 6 pm.
  • Sunday, 6:30 am, 8 am, 10 am, 11:30 am, 1 pm, and 6 pm.
  • Weekdays, 6:45 am, 7:30 am, 8:15 am, and 12:05 pm.
  St. Lawrence O'Toole is at 5323 Penn Avenue in Garfield. The 11:00 Mass is apparently a folk liturgy (like some of the Newman Center masses). 363-1771.
• Mercy Hospital has regular Masses on Sunday. Joe Mertz writes: "The music is new and top-notch. It is typically accompanied my synthesizer and one or two flutes. The atmosphere is friendly, the language is inclusive, and the homilies are relevant. All are welcome. Sunday Mass is at 11:00. There is a Saturday night Mass, but I am not sure of the time. To get there, just go in the main door of the hospital, go up the stairs, and the chapel is directly to the left of the receptionist's desk."
• Duquesne University downtown has its own campus ministry with several Masses during the school year. 396-6020.

Alternate Liturgies

• Tridentine Latin Masses (approved by the Diocese of Pittsburgh) are held weekly at St. Boniface Church (in Holy Wisdom Parish) on the North Side. Here is the order of the Mass used. Low Mass is at 8am on Sunday; High Mass is at 11am. For more information, see this page or call 766-0950.
• There are several Eastern Rite churches in the area. The closest to campus is Holy Spirit Byzantine Catholic Church on Fifth Avenue between Morewood and Neville. (682-8584). Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is on Beechwood in Greenfield (right over the bridge from Schenley park) (421-5231).
• As a result of Pittsburgh's heritage of successive waves of immigrants each settling in a different neighborhood, there are a number of parishes geared toward specific ethnic groups (but mostly European). Some of them disappeared after the recent diocesan reorganization, but a few remain. Sister Bernadette at the Newman Center is probably a good person to ask about these sorts of things.
• Misa en Espaniol: Domingos a la 1:00PM, en la capilla detras de Central District Catholic High School, Fifth Avenue, entre Neville y Morewood.