Our mission
Our primary mission is to inform Catholics in the Diocese of Worcester about what is happening in the Church at the parish, diocesan, state, national and international levels. Part of that primary mission means that we serve as an arm of the Bishop’s teaching ministry.
In concert with this mission, we educate, enlighten, evangelize and contribute to a strengthened sense of Catholic community in the diocese.
Finally, through columns and editorials, we attempt to define and clarify important issues facing Catholics and, indeed, all human beings. In so doing, we provide a counterbalance to a largely secularized and spiritually alienated media.
About The Catholic Free Press
Established in 1951 and published weekly by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Most Rev. Robert J. McManus
Periodicals paid at Worcester, Massachusetts.
Annual Subscription $23 ($55 foreign); fifty cents per copy.
Member of International Union of the Catholic Press, Catholic Press Association, Catholic News Service. Material intended for publication either by the news or advertising departments should be received by Tuesday noon.
Address: 51 Elm Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609
Telephone: Worcester (508) 757-6387
FAX number: (508) 756-8315
E-mail: cfpnews@catholicfreepress.org
Executive Editor: Margaret M. Russell
Contributing Editor: William T. Clew
Advertising Director: Robert C. Ballantine
Assistant Administrator: Carol Head Scannell
Board of Governors: Paul F. McGrath, chairman, Mary T. Donovan, Father Francis T. Goguen, Msgr. F.Stephen Pedone, Deborah Penta, John P. Widdison
