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Robert Lewis Jr., chief executive officer of The BASE, will be speaker May 12 at the 103rd commencement exercises for Assumption College at the DCU Center. He and Sister Annie Credidio, of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, will receive honorary degrees during the ceremony, the college announced.

Six former competitors and a coach have been named to the College of the Holy Cross Athletic Hall of Fame the Holy Cross Varsity Club has announced. They will be formally inducted at the Varsity Club’s annual dinner May 4 in the Hogan Campus Center.

Catholic News Service has opened a special section on Vatican Summit on Child Protection. VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The long-awaited "Meeting on the Protection of Minors in the Church," also called the abuse summit, was an extraordinary and historic gathering that surpassed many expectations while perhaps disappointing others. Historic in that it brought together the heads of 114 bishops' conferences from the entire world, as well as the leaders of religious congregations, curial officials and even a few laypeople to discuss in a semi-public forum the sins of the church and to hear the powerful words of the victims themselves.

Angel Rojas, the TV ministry’s longest-serving volunteer, recalls when Masses were recorded in Worcester to be broadcast later. The Worcester Diocese began live daily telecasts on Feb. 8, 1989, according to Raymond L. Delisle, chancellor and director of the diocesan communications ministry.

Teaching today’s generation the art of conversation was part of the conversation at the inauguration of Anna Maria College’s speaker series about the Catholic Intellectual Tradition.

If we are willing to make an exception to the rule that direct killing of an innocent human being is always wrong, then it only becomes a matter of “haggling over the price.” If killing by euthanasia can be allowed for a deeply emotional reason, it can certainly be allowed for other reasons too...

Massachusetts bishops are addressing the state’s Catholics prior to the Feb. 21-24 Vatican Summit on the sexual abuse crisis. It is a crisis, they say, “that has again enveloped the life of the Church.

Author and EWTN personality, Mike Aquilina, will speak at the 19th Annual Worcester Diocesan Catholic Men’s Conference, scheduled for April 6 at Assumption College. The title of his talk is “With the Strength of Angels.”

Four diocesan priests spent three days on the U.S.-Mexican border recently to observe the ministries of the Catholic Church that serve migrants on both sides of the border. The trip was under the auspices of the Catholic Extension’s Mission Immersion Program for Pastors.

WORCESTER – Rising costs have resulted in a total operating deficit of $1.4M for the Diocese of Worcester, according to financial statements and the annual report issued for the 2018 fiscal year.

Stephanie Walsh, a 17-year-old from St. Paul Parish in Warren, came back from World Youth Day in Panama wanting to learn more and to start a youth group. Matthew J. Hart, youth ministry coordinator for middle school and high school at St. John Paul II Parish in Southbridge, hopes to follow up with pilgrims to interest others in the next WYD in Portugal in 2022.

WEBSTER – Weaving plastic bags into mats for the homeless. Using “trash” to organize the art teacher’s supplies. These were among ways students at All Saints Academy took care of people and the earth during Catholic Schools Week last week.

During the course of pregnancy, receiving an adverse prenatal diagnosis can be a tremendously jolting experience for parents. In severe cases, physicians may tell them that their unborn child has a condition that is “incompatible with life.” Making Sense out of Bioethics by Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.