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 ...
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, ...
Local Catholics gathered Monday to pray and crown a statue of Our Lady of Fatima for one of her home visits – on the anniversary of “the Miracle of the Sun.” Noting that this was the date of the ...
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 ...
SPENCER – The Trappist monks of St. Joseph’s Abbey live a contemplative life of prayer and work – and they have been doing so for 200 years – 75 of those years in the town of Spencer. On Aug. 1, a ...
The National Centre for Padre Pio in Barto, Pennsylvania, is displaying relics of St. Padre Pio in an exhibit traveling throughout the nation and one of the stops will be at St. Anne and St. Patrick ...
Saturday’s ordination of two men to the priesthood was filled with emotion. “It was very emotional and moving,” said Jacqueline Sullivan, whose son Zachary Sullivan is one of the two new priests. “I ...
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 ...
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 ...
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