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October 30, 2026The conference celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System (CrMS), which has “empowered women to understand and monitor their fertility and reproductive health and enabled couples to achieve or avoid pregnancy through joint educated decisions,” according to organizer Marise Frangie.Read More -
October 30, 2026“It was a special graduating class,” commented Sheila Marshall, a reunion planning committee member. They did not know they would be the school’s last class until their senior year, she said.Read More -
October 30, 2026On Tuesday, Oct. 27, Bishop McManus presented grants totaling $42,500 for 28 programs sponsored by various parishes and agencies around the diocese. Last year grants totaled $45,000.Read More -
October 30, 2026WORCESTER – The former St. Stephen Parish rectory will be torn down soon and replaced by a gravel lot that can be used for limited parking.Read More -
October 30, 2026(OSV News) – Pope Leo XIV has submitted his vote by mail-in ballot for the upcoming Illinois midterm elections, the Vatican confirmed.Read More -
October 29, 2026(OSV News) – As the nation's Catholics conclude Respect Life Month, Massachusetts pro-life advocates are challenging a new law in the state expanding abortion, and have collected nearly 100,000 voter signatures to put the issue back on the ballot in 2028.Read More -
October 23, 2026The deepest question beneath the abortion debate is not finally technological or political. It is anthropological: Who is man? The answer we give determines not only how we regard the unborn child, but how we regard every human being whose abilities, independence or social usefulness are diminished.Read More
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October 23, 2026WORCESTER – Father C. Michael Broderick appreciates the support that the Celebrate Priesthood! Taste of the Diocese Gala has provided for retired and senior priests. As a senior priest, he is one of those who benefits from the gala.Read More -
October 23, 2026The St. Thomas More Society of Worcester County will honor the following individuals at its 68th annual Red Mass on Sunday, Oct. 25, at 10 a.m. at St. Paul Cathedral in Worcester.Read More -
October 22, 2026AUBURN – Bishop McManus blessed artwork in the renovated sanctuary of North American Martyrs Parish on its patronal feast day Monday.Read More -
October 21, 2026If he hadn’t been preparing for priesthood, he wouldn’t have met the woman he married – thanks in part to a matchmaking priest. He later became a clergyman – thanks in part to his wife.Read More -
October 19, 2026AUBURN – Rev. Thaddeus X. Stachura, 90, of Auburn and a priest for the Diocese of Worcester passed away peacefully on Friday, Oct. 16.Read More -
October 16, 2026On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document containing perhaps the most consequential sentence in American political history: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Nearly 250 years later, America is still wrestling with the reach of those words.Read More
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October 16, 2026"The chest X-ray revealed good recovery of the operated lung," the doctors added, noting that the pope's physical therapy session that day also "included a full range of motor activities."Read More -
October 16, 2026Father John Henault, a Missionary Oblate of Mary Immaculate, spoke with The Catholic Free Press by phone from Haiti in anticipation of World Mission Sunday this weekend.Read More -
October 16, 2026In this year celebrating the 100th anniversary of World Mission Sunday (Oct. 18) and the 75th anniversary of the World Mission Rosary that Blessed Fulton J. Sheen designed, the Worcester diocese is among places leading that rosary online for global participation.Read More
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October 16, 2026WORCESTER – It’s apple picking season. So it’s nearly time for Jackie St. Martin and her sisters to start making applesauce. They donate their earnings to St. Mary Health Care Center. The Catholic health ministry is a skilled nursing and long-term care facility at 39 Queen St.Read More -
October 16, 2026St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Westborough is holding Alpha programs for the fourth year, and this fall the parish is branching out by offering them at two restaurants in the town as well as the parish hall.Read More -
October 15, 2026Mrs. Burns was led to found The Feminine Project to “bring together Catholic women to cultivate our minds and build community in order to restore authentic femininity, the home and heart of society.”Read More -
October 15, 2026ROME (OSV News) -- Church and world leaders offered prayers and wishes for a speedy recovery to Pope Leo XIV following the Vatican's announcement that he was diagnosed with lung cancer after undergoing surgery to remove part of his right lung.Read More
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