Family and friends from out of state - and even from Colombia. Local Catholics eager to greet men who served at their parishes. Applause inside and outside the cathedral. This was the scene at the ...
Members of three former parishes help priests serve and evangelize the bereaved at Divine Mercy Parish in Blackstone. That parish was formed in 2022 from St. Paul and St. Theresa parishes in ...
As part of the series Conversation with Bishop McManus, a show produced by the diocese’s Communication Ministry, Raymond L. Delisle, director, sat down with the bishop ahead of his 75th birthday on ...
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 celebrating ...
In Catholic Health Care Ethics: A Manual for Practitioners, Second Edition, James M. DuBois writes “In the Catholic tradition, death is conceptualized as the separation of the soul from the body.” The ...
WORCESTER - A bishop in Papua New Guinea learned that Mass had not been celebrated at a remote community in some time. He’d also been told there was only one Catholic family there. He was in for a ...
In the Order of Christian Funerals, the text used by priests and deacons in the funeral rites, the Congregation for Divine Worship teaches us, “By means of the funeral rites it has been the practice ...
(OSV News) – At the end of our earthly lives, our faith tells us there will be four last things: death, judgment, hell and heaven. Reflecting on such ominous topics in this autumn season can seem ...
WORCESTER – An empty stable. A teen drop-in. Even a first kiss. These were memories shared after St. Christopher Parish’s final Sunday Mass last weekend. The parish merged Wednesday, along with Our ...
WORCESTER – Hope, despite darkness in the world, was a central theme at the Worcester diocese’s closing of the Jubilee Year. Bishop McManus, joined by Archbishop Michael W. Banach (originally from the ...
Vatican says cause for Ruth V.K. Pakaluk, local pro-life activist, wife and mother, can move forward
This fall the Vatican paved the way for the Worcester diocese to begin the cause for potential canonization of a local Catholic – Ruth V. K. Pakaluk. Ruth, a wife and mother from St. Paul Cathedral, ...
In the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, we learn that the creeds of the Church, also called “symbols of faith,” are “composite formulas … with which the Church, from her very ...
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