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Members of Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish in Worcester have another saint to promote and relic to share with the diocese.

Keeping the faith – and sharing it – is important for people who celebrated the 150th anniversary of their parish, St. Denis in Douglas, on Sunday.

Superintendent David Perda said Wednesday that Holy Family Academy is the third school connected with the Catholic Schools Office that is temporarily shifting to remote learning because of a positive virus test.

Even if we are struck down with the most horrific suffering, even if our grief is too heavy to bear, Jesus is with us and will carry us if we but ask.

Priests ministering and being ministered to – during and through the coronavirus – was the theme of many talks at the 7th annual Celebrate Priesthood! gala, held Oct. 26.

The Catholic voter “bears responsibility for connecting the dots between what our faith teaches and which candidates will best serve the common good,” Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City said.

Michael D. Turpin and his wife, Deborah, run Charlton Manor Rest Home and Assisted Living, "like a private home."

Spectrum customers in Worcester will be able to continue watching the Daily Mass on TV, but on a different channel - community access channel 194.

Retired priest Father Conrad Pecevich has turned to Zoom to continue Bible study classes for participants to develop a deeper understanding of Scripture .

Bishop Daniel P. Reilly, 92, bishop emeritus of the diocese, talked about his days in active ministry in advance of the Celebrate Priesthood! gala.

The second step in missionary evangelizing involves the way we are “caring” or not caring for people, John and Therese Boucher tell us.

K&B’s Krayons and Beyond, a nonprofit organization in Westborough, delivered carloads of clothes to Catholic Charities recently and the two discussed a long-term partnership.

Ninety-nine-year-old Father C. Romeo Lamothe, a retired priest of the Diocese of Worcester, died Tuesday, October 13, at the Rose Monahan Hospice in Worcester.

Pope Francis appointed Father William Draper Byrne, a College of the Holy Cross graduate and a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, as the 10th Bishop of Springfield. Bishop McManus has been serving as apostolic administrator in Springfield.

Intercessory prayer calls us to slow down and focus on the needs of one person at a time, John and Therese Boucher say in their column "Sharing the Love of Christ in pandemic times."

Women in the Worcester Diocese have joined others around the world offering holy hours for priests through the Seven Sisters Apostolate.

The memory of Grace Rett – and the example she set – are being kept alive in part through Our Lady of the Valley Regional School’s planned $3 million GRACE Center.

In a world where so much divides us, World Mission Sunday rejoices in our unity as missionaries by our baptism, Bishop McManus says in a letter to the Diocese.

"Abortion is a … blight on the soul of our great nation, and it cries out to the heavens for penance and reparation,” Bishop McManus said at Respect Life Sunday Mass where four people were honored for their pro-life work.

People were told some ways they can live out the message of St. Francis and Pope Francis in a celebration of the Season of Creation in the Worcester Diocese.