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,” ...
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, ...
“When you come into this church, you want to pray.” That’s what Stigmatine Father Richard A. Scioli, pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Milford, says visitors tell him. He says he has been ...
(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 ...
Bishop McManus has raised serious concerns about a K-12 sex education program and asked priests to inform parents that they have the option to opt their children out of it. “This fall the Worcester ...
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 lands of sunrise and sunset you fill with your joy (Psalm 65:8). The harmonious singing of cicadas in the afternoon, ancient temples with incense burning to strange deities, the mottled-gray of ...
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 ...
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