June19,2014 This year’s changes in 37 priests’ assignments bring a variety of changes for parishes and other places priests serve. All but one are effective July 1. Some parishes will begin sharing a ...

For the First Saturday devotion, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, a person must go to confession, receive holy Communion, recite five decades of the rosary, and keep Mary company for ...

March28,2021 Priests of the diocese celebrating significant anniversaries of their ordination this year were recognized at the Chrism Mass Tuesday at St. Paul Cathedral. This year, three priests are ...

Undertaking construction of the present church was Father Edward W. Lynch, who was sickly when ordained, but ended up being pastor for 30 years. After he was appointed pastor in 1950, “the kids at ...

She said it’s important to build relationships, so people see pro-lifers’ support for women “and connect that with the true message of the pro-life movement.” She has had fruitful conversations with ...

Timothy McMahon, executive director of Catholic Charities Worcester County, reported that food distribution has increased by 70 percent at his organization’s food pantries in Worcester, Leominster, ...

Joseph Bulger Jr., former sexton, said he had rescued the Fatima statue at his mother’s request in the 1970s when “they were tearing everything down” in the church. His mother spotted the statue in ...

January11,2024 Bishop McManus has announced transfers and one retirement affecting five diocesan priests and one deacon. All transfers are in effect. Father Juan D. Echavarría, pastor of St. Mary of ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Retired Pope Benedict XVI, who had an impressive record as a teacher and defender of the basics of Catholic faith, is likely to go down in history books as the first pope in ...

A group of diocesan priests recently gathered at Miramar Retreat Center, Duxbury, for a five-day retreat sponsored by the Diocese of Worcester’s Office of Ongoing Priestly Formation. The theme of the ...

The retirement of Father William F. Sanders, pastor of St. Louis Parish in Webster, means that St. Louis will now have an administrator. Father Javier Julio, who has been associate pastor of St. Mary ...

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.