This year the diocese’s African Ministry is focusing on helping the men in its communities to fulfill their responsibilities and bring their families to Jesus. “Each year we come up with a theme,” ...
Foreign-born Worcester diocesan priests should be able to continue their ministries here, thanks to a federal rule that went into effect last Friday. The updated policy removes the requirement that ...
(OSV News) – Three U.S. cardinals have issued a joint statement urging the creation of a “genuinely moral foreign policy for our nation,” as the U.S. faces “the most profound and searing debate about ...
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 ...
Vatican says cause for Ruth V.K. Pakaluk, local pro-life activist, wife and mother, can move forward
This fall the Vatican paved the way for the Worcester diocese to begin the cause for potential canonization of a local Catholic – Ruth V. K. Pakaluk. Ruth, a wife and mother from St. Paul Cathedral, ...
(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 ...
Bishop McManus will offer a special lecture Oct. 11 commemorating the 30th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s encyclical, “Evangelium Vitae,” in English, “The Gospel of Life.” The presentation will be ...
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 ...
As the Diocese of Worcester celebrates 75 years since its establishment in 1950, The Catholic Free Press took a look back at the events, people and places that helped shape the Catholic Church in ...
Bishop McManus offered his prayers in union with Catholics around the world Monday “that God welcome [Pope Francis] into eternal life.” “We are all saddened to hear of the death of our Holy Father on ...
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