The St. Vincent Community Healthcare Fund Committee announced that it has awarded 29 grants totaling $104,459, according to a Worcester diocesan press release. “Our clients are really struggling to ...
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, ...
WORCESTER – A bishop who shared immigrants’ concerns with the pope urged local people to pray, speak and act on their behalf. Bishop Mark J. Seitz, bishop of the Diocese of El Paso, Texas, and ...
“When you come into this church, you want to pray.” That’s what Stigmatine Father Richard A. Scioli, pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Milford, says visitors tell him. He says he has been ...
Volunteers are needed to pack, deliver and serve the annual Bishop’s Holiday Dinners. Catholic Charities Worcester County collaborates with Bishop McManus in hosting the dinners. “Since 1960, in ...
(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 ...
(OSV News) – At the end of his Sept. 24 audience, Pope Leo XIV issued an invitation to Catholics worldwide. “I invite everyone to pray the rosary every day during the coming month – for peace – ...
Bishop McManus will offer a special lecture Oct. 11 commemorating the 30th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s encyclical, “Evangelium Vitae,” in English, “The Gospel of Life.” The presentation will be ...
Young people, parents and priests were among those celebrating locally the canonization of Sts. Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati, the two young men whom Pope Leo XIV named saints on Sunday.
A class assignment at Catholic schools several states apart blossomed into a 20-year friendship that demonstrates the value of handwritten letters in an age of technology. “This started at St. Stephen ...
A man vandalizing St. Bernard Church in Worcester Monday afternoon was reported by a woman who came in to pray, according to the pastor, who expressed compassion for the man. The man cooperated with ...
SPENCER – The Trappist monks of St. Joseph’s Abbey live a contemplative life of prayer and work – and they have been doing so for 200 years – 75 of those years in the town of Spencer. On Aug. 1, a ...