June6,2025 Staffing changes are coming this summer for several parishes – due to priests retiring, becoming a senior priest, going to a different parish, taking on specialized ministry, or taking a ...

April3,2025 By Tanya Connor | The Catholic Free Press LEICESTER – Religious sisters were given honor when a service to youth – which they started – took a new turn this week. McAuley Nazareth Inc. in ...

March22,2025 By Tanya Connor | The Catholic Free Press A local college student has encountered Jesus’ passion in a meaningful way – in homeless people he and others befriend. “Seeing Christ ...

March21,2025 The Diocese of Worcester’s annual Mass for Life will be celebrated by Bishop McManus on Tuesday, March 25, the feast of the Annunciation of the Lord, at 10 a.m. at St. Paul Cathedral in ...

By Bill Doyle CFP Correspondent WORCESTER – Urban Missionaries of Our Lady of Hope runs The Little Store Food Pantry at 242 Canterbury St. and the St. Oscar Romero Food Pantry at 19 Chatham St., ...

January22,2025 Father Ralph Anthony DiOrio Jr., 94, referred to as the “healing priest” and founder and director of the Apostolate of Divine Mercy and Healing, passed away on Monday, Jan 20 at Life ...

The new parish uses St. Paul’s campus, and has incorporated elements of the other churches, including a statue of St. Thérèse of Lisieux from St. T To the side of the altar is a statue from St.

December9,2024 By Maria Young | The Catholic Free Press WEST BOYLSTON – Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish has declined to press charges against a man who stole donations from a prayer box in the church.

Father Dolan preached about Nano Nagle, who founded the congregation in Cork, Ireland, in 1775. Carrying a lantern by night, she secretly educated children when the English government forbade Catholic ...

November16,2024 By Father Michael N. Lavallee pastor, St. Peter Parish, Northbridge The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that the works of mercy are “charitable actions by which we come to ...

November1,2024 By Maria Young | The Catholic Free Press Mercy Centre, an entity of Catholic Charities Worcester County, currently located at 25 West Chester St. in Worcester, is slated to relocate to ...

“Our liturgy this afternoon is the first in a series of events celebrating the arrival of the Sisters of Notre Dame in the Archdiocese of Boston 175 years ago, in 1849, and their subsequent journey ...