Our Lady of the Angels School captured the 7th and 8th grade championship in the Venerini Academy Grade Girls Basketball League ... and more.

Dudley parish taking collections for Ukrainian refugees

Editor of Jesuit magazine, Father Matt Malone preaches on war in Ukraine, synod and the Eucharist at St. John novena

The Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion brought 128 individuals to St. Paul Cathedral.

RCIA participant sees that "Catholicism really is beautiful."

Youth experiences were so profound that Timothy Messenger found the calling to devote his life and career to Catholic youth programs.

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.

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.

WORCESTER – Bishop McManus asked worshippers at the St. Francis Xavier novena to add prayers for the people of Ukraine to their own intentions.

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.

"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...."

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.

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.

"As we prepare for the Season of Lent, I ask that local Catholics and Christians of all denominations add to their Lenten intentions peace in the Ukraine," Bishop McManus said. (A woman outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City cries during a Feb. 24 protest against Russia's massive military operation in Ukraine. (CNS photo/Jeenah Moon, Reuters))

Knights of Columbus serves up pasta meals to nearly 300 in Harvard; proceeds donated to local charities.

Catholic healthcare workers must cultivate a manner of life that is both virtuous and prayerful, participants were told at the 17th Annual Divine Mercy Medicine, Bioethics and Spirituality Conference.

After a stunning collegiate football career, Kevin O’Brien, played professional football from 1993 to 1996. During that time, and raised a Catholic, he began searching for God everywhere (except the Catholic Church).

The diocese provides retired priests retirement stipends, medical and long-term insurance premiums, and assisted living facility, nursing home and independent living cost assistance. 

Catholics and Lutherans find a home in Worcester for a Muslim family of refugees from Afghanistan and help resettle them. 

Annual Divine Mercy conference participants urged to open hearts to Jesus to come "to work in and through us"