Julia Saksa is an electrical apprentice for Kuik Electric in Uxbridge. So it should come as no surprise to hear how she described attending the SEEK2026 Conference last weekend. “Yeah, it was electric ...

WORCESTER – Hope, despite darkness in the world, was a central theme at the Worcester diocese’s closing of the Jubilee Year. Bishop McManus, joined by Archbishop Michael W. Banach (originally from the ...

Years ago, our young adult group was asked to go door-to-door in our inner-city parish “evangelizing.” We knew evangelicals did this by asking people, “Have you met Jesus?” and Jehovah’s Witnesses ...

(OSV News) – At the end of our earthly lives, our faith tells us there will be four last things: death, judgment, hell and heaven. Reflecting on such ominous topics in this autumn season can seem ...

Young people, parents and priests were among those celebrating locally the canonization of Sts. Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati, the two young men whom Pope Leo XIV named saints on Sunday.

A class assignment at Catholic schools several states apart blossomed into a 20-year friendship that demonstrates the value of handwritten letters in an age of technology. “This started at St. Stephen ...

(OSV News) – For 50 years, the Steubenville Conferences have been forming teens in the faith and deepening adults’ faith journeys.The Worcester diocesan Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry ...

As the Worcester diocese celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, so too does St. Boniface Parish in Lunenburg. It was the first new parish created by Bishop John J. Wright, first bishop of ...

Each Spring, on behalf of our agencies and ministries, I invite you, our parishioners, to be partners with us in serving the community with charitable, educational and ministerial services. Partners ...

LEICESTER – Religious sisters were given honor when a service to youth – which they started – took a new turn this week. McAuley Nazareth Inc. in Leicester, an outgrowth of a Sisters of Mercy ministry ...

A local college student has encountered Jesus’ passion in a meaningful way – in homeless people he and others befriend. “Seeing Christ ... particularly in the poor on the streets ... I am seeing ...

WORCESTER – An estimated 700 people gathered to celebrate the Worcester diocese’s 75th anniversary March 2 at St. Paul Cathedral. You could say that’s the place where it all began. The first bishop of ...