Larry J. Kulick
Larry James Kulick was born on February 24, 1966, in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, the son of Larry J. Kulick Sr. and Myrna Dolores Coleman Kulick, and was raised in Leechburg, in the Alle-Kiski Valley northeast of Pittsburgh, in St. Martha Parish. Of Slovak stock — a life member of the First Catholic Slovak Union — he was formed entirely at home: St. Joseph High School in Natrona Heights, then Saint Vincent College and Seminary in Latrobe, where he took degrees in philosophy (1988) and theology (1991, 1992).
Bishop Anthony Bosco ordained him a priest of Greensburg on May 16, 1992. He served as parochial vicar at the cathedral and at Irwin, then as pastor at Kent, New Kensington and New Alexandria, and years in vocations work. A licentiate in canon law from The Catholic University of America followed in 2012, the year Bishop Brandt made him vicar general and moderator of the curia; Bishop Malesic kept him on in 2015.
When Malesic went to Cleveland, the College of Consultors elected Kulick diocesan administrator on September 15, 2020. Pope Francis appointed him the diocese's sixth bishop that December 18 — the first native son and priest of Greensburg to hold the see — and Archbishop Nelson Pérez ordained and installed him on February 11, 2021. He is also a classic-car man: his prized 1966 Pontiac LeMans is the car that brought him home from the hospital as a newborn.
- 2013-02-17Pre-TC context only: the first extraordinary-form Mass was celebrated at Holy Family, Latrobe, on the first Sunday of Lent 2013, under Bishop Brandt, following his December 20, 2012 announcement implementing the extraordinary form in the diocese and appointing the Holy Family pastor his representative for it (announcement as quoted from the diocesan release by Fr. Z's Blog). The provision Kulick inherited in 2021 was this single Sunday Mass. ↗
- 2021-07-16Traditionis Custodes issued. The Catholic News Agency / National Catholic Register diocese-by-diocese tracker of episcopal responses recorded the Diocese of Greensburg as N/A - no public response - and no decree, norms, designated-site list, statement or interview by Bishop Kulick on the motu proprio has been found in any source consulted for this draft, diocesan or otherwise, at any point in the TC era. Reports that he issued TC implementation norms were not verified against any primary source. ↗
- 2023-03-12The Holy Family parish bulletin for the Third Sunday of Lent lists the Sunday schedule with 'Latin Mass, 1:00 pm' and a 1:00 p.m. Latin Mass intention for the following Sunday - the Latrobe 1962 Mass continuing midway through the TC era, in the same parish church, at the same weekly frequency, in a dated primary snapshot. ↗
- 2026-10-23The Holy Family website, fetched on the as-of date, still presents the Traditional Latin Mass as celebrated every Sunday, now at 3 p.m., with High Masses on the second and fourth Sundays and a Gregorian chant schola; parish bulletins of 2025 and 2026 likewise list 'Latin Mass, Sunday @ 3:00 p.m.' The move from 1 p.m. (bulletin of March 12, 2023) to 3 p.m. is bracketed between March 2023 and August 2024; no source consulted dates it or attributes it to the bishop, the pastor or the parish, and it is not counted as an act of the bishop in either direction. ↗
Greensburg is the diocese that never made news over Traditionis Custodes — because its bishop never said a word about it. No decree, no norms, no designated-site list and no statement from Bishop Kulick on the motu proprio has been found in any source consulted, and the Catholic News Agency / National Catholic Register tracker of July 2021 recorded Greensburg simply as N/A. Reports that he issued implementation norms could not be verified against any primary source. What happened instead was continuation: the Sunday Traditional Latin Mass at Holy Family in Latrobe — an extraordinary-form Mass by the parish's own account, celebrated since the first Sunday of Lent 2013 — is documented at 1 p.m. in the parish bulletin of March 2023 and at 3 p.m. on the parish website today, at the same church, every Sunday, with sung High Masses twice a month and a Gregorian chant schola.
Honesty requires two caveats. The hour moved at some point between March 2023 and August 2024, and no source dates that change or says whose act it was — pastor, parish or bishop — so it is not counted here as an act of his in either direction. And the Latrobe Mass sits in a parish church, the very case for which Rome's 2023 rescript expects a dispensation; whether Greensburg ever sought or received one is simply not in the public record. Kulick's own diocesan synodal summary noted “pockets of discourse” around the extraordinary form among his people; he answered them, publicly, with nothing at all.
So the verdict is neither welcome nor restriction, and this dossier does not dress silence up as either. A shepherd is also judged by what he did not do: Kulick cut nothing, moved nothing, closed nothing, and added nothing. The one old Mass his diocese had in July 2021 is the one old Mass it has in October 2026, in the same church, on the same day of the week — undisturbed, and also unattended by any recorded act of its bishop. In the categories of this project that is no_record, stated plainly: bare continuation, on a verified 1962 foundation, under a bishop whose whole TC-era record on the old Mass is that he left it alone.