• Food program director placed on leave
    March 14, 2022
    St. John Parish in Worcester has placed William Riley on administrative leave as the director of the St. John Food for the Poor Program pending the outcome of an investigation of claims of illegal activity involving adults, according to the diocese.
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  • Eight has been more than enough
    Eight has been more than enough
    March 14, 2022
    Our Lady of the Angels School captured the 7th and 8th grade championship in the Venerini Academy Grade Girls Basketball League ... and more.
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  • Pastor’s classmate in Ukraine; parish to take collection
    Pastor’s classmate in Ukraine; parish to take collection
    March 11, 2022
    Dudley parish taking collections for Ukrainian refugees
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  • War is opposite of Eucharist, Jesuit says
    War is opposite of Eucharist, Jesuit says
    March 11, 2022
    Editor of Jesuit magazine, Father Matt Malone preaches on war in Ukraine, synod and the Eucharist at St. John novena
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  • Bishop sees life, joy and hope in people
    Bishop sees life, joy and hope in people
    March 11, 2022
    The Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion brought 128 individuals to St. Paul Cathedral.
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  • Man finds Church is remedy for ills
    Man finds Church is remedy for ills
    March 11, 2022
    RCIA participant sees that "Catholicism really is beautiful."
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  • Youth Ministry Shares Christ
    Youth Ministry Shares Christ
    March 11, 2022
    Youth experiences were so profound that Timothy Messenger found the calling to devote his life and career to Catholic youth programs.
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  • Massachusetts top court considers challenge to ban on assisted suicide
    Massachusetts top court considers challenge to ban on assisted suicide
    March 10, 2022
    WASHINGTON, D.C (CNA) – The highest court in Massachusetts considered a challenge brought by two doctors against the state’s prohibition of physician-assisted suicide on Wednesday.
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  • Rose the Rebel comes to Notre Dame
    Rose the Rebel comes to Notre Dame
    March 10, 2022
    Notre Dame Academy has revealed its new mascot, Rose the Rebel – a roughly six-foot-tall girl with green and gold hair, sporting an NDA athletic uniform.
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  • Bishop asks novena-goers to pray for Ukraine
    Bishop asks novena-goers to pray for Ukraine
    March 7, 2022
    WORCESTER – Bishop McManus asked worshippers at the St. Francis Xavier novena to add prayers for the people of Ukraine to their own intentions.
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  • Lighting candles during Lent
    Lighting candles during Lent
    March 4, 2022
    GRAFTON – With the arrival of Lent, St. James Parish will probably need more votive candles. “People are really into the practice,” said Father Anthony J. Mpagi, pastor.
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  • Bishop McManus' Lenten message
    Bishop McManus' Lenten message
    March 2, 2022
    "With ashes on our foreheads, we have begun Lent’s 40 days of deeper prayer, more frequent penance and greater almsgiving. We do so because we are sinners in need of repentance...."
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  • Assumptionist Father Jerome A. Lively, 57
    Assumptionist Father Jerome A. Lively, 57
    March 1, 2022
    STURBRIDGE – Father Jerome A. Lively, A.A., 57, died Sunday, Feb. 27, in Harrington Memorial Hospital, Southbridge, after an illness. He was director of faith formation at St. Anne and St. Patrick Parish.
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  • Polish parish sends support for Sister in Ukraine
    Polish parish sends support for Sister in Ukraine
    March 1, 2022
    Sister Beata Wilk, 54, of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, is helping people in war-torn Ukraine. She is a friend of Father Richard W. Polek, pastor of Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish in Worcester.
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