Father Francis A. Roberge and St. Bernard Central Catholic High School students received thanks for their service at a Veterans Day cemetery celebration.

BALTIMORE (CNS) -- Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles was elected to a three-year term as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the bishops' fall general assembly. Bishop George V. Murry of Youngstown, Ohio, was elected chairman of the Committee for Religious Liberty. Bishop McManus had been acting chairman of the committee since July when Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, stepped down to undergo cancer treatment.

Father Louis J. Gould, 89, formerly of Fitchburg, died Nov. 8 at University of Massachusetts - Memorial Hospital, Worcester. His funeral will be 11 a.m. Friday at St. Joseph's in Fitchburg.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Bishops from New England, including Bishop McManus, shared with Pope Francis some of the joys, challenges and sufferings of the church in the Northeast and, really, throughout the United States, three of the bishops said.

SHREWSBURY – You could say that the makerspace at St. Mary Elementary School is a multi-purpose room. Simply put, a makerspace is a “space in which to make things,” said Gabriel Beltran, St. Mary’s technology director.

SOUTHBRIDGE – Deacon Teodoro Camacho, 65, died at home Monday, surrounded by his loving family. Calling hours will be Friday, Nov. 8, from 5-8 p.m. at Notre Dame Church, 446 Main St.; vigil service at 8 p.m. Funeral will be 10 a.m. Saturday at Notre Dame.