The compassion of the Catholic Church has gone by the wayside.” A woman takes a photo documenting the final mass at St. Rita of Cascia on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, in Tacoma. Pete Caster pcaster@ ...

The efforts of a Tacoma Catholic ... twist in the fate of the church dedicated to the saint of improbable causes. Now part of Pope St. John XXIII parish, the St. Rita group wants to restore ...

The group isn’t the only Tacoma Catholic church seeking Canon law help in Rome. A group of parishioners from the now closed St. Rita of Cascia on Tacoma’s Hilltop has hired an Italian Canon ...

On Friday, four Tacoma Catholic parishes will merge into one ... the final mass held — for now — at the church. St. Rita’s first mass was held April 9, 1922 in a house where the church ...