In 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 ...

WORCESTER – It’s apple picking season. So it’s nearly time for Jackie St. Martin and her sisters to start making applesauce. Jackie St. Martin, Susan St. Martin and Denise Mills, all parishioners of ...

Mary Bravos received plenty of bravos last Friday night. In the gym at St. John, Guardian of Our Lady Parish, in Clinton, parishioners, friends and family helped Mrs. Bravos celebrate her 105th ...

The Class of 1976 from the now-closed St. Mary’s High School in Worcester held a 50th anniversary reunion Saturday, with Mass at the school’s parish, Our Lady of Czestochowa, followed by dinner at ...

Preaching and prayer are among responses of local Catholics to Massachusetts’ new law allowing the killing of babies up until birth. Our Lady of the Angels Parish in Worcester held a “Holy Hour of ...

St. Paul Diocesan Jr./Sr. High School didn’t have enough players to field a football team this fall, so the school’s few players will suit up for St. Bernard’s High School in Fitchburg. When St.

Expectations can sometimes hide or distract from the grace present in various moments in our lives. This is especially true when we might attempt to constrain or define the extent of God’s generosity, ...

The College of the Holy Cross has appointed a Jesuit to report to its lay president and to oversee the formation of students, faculty and staff. Jesuit Father Keith Maczkiewicz, the new vice president ...

Sister Katherine Mc-Kenna, formally known in religious life as Sister Mary Joan, died Aug. 14. She was born Sept. 9, 1943, to Mary T. (Burns) McKenna and J. Joseph McKenna in Central Falls, Rhode ...

Just this month Pope Leo XIV urged sisters to foster vocations to the religious life in the United States, describing this work as “of vital importance.” He was addressing participants of the ...

For 30 years, the Archdiocese of Hartford has promoted the cause of the canonization of Blessed Father Michael McGivney for founding the Knights of Columbus. In 1882, as an assistant pastor at St.

SPENCER – Trappist Father Timothy Scott felt at home at St. Joseph’s Abbey when first visiting – and he’s still at peace there. He’s focused on Jesus and this community. The now-Abbot Scott spoke this ...