It is said that the appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe was the single most powerful evangelization event since Pentecost. Guadalupe happens to be the geographical center of the Americas; therefore, ...

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.

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 ...

Worcester Catholics are among those calling for nuclear disarmament through commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the United States atomic bombings in Japan – in Hiroshima Aug. 6 and Nagasaki Aug.

SHREWSBURY – St. Anne’s celebrated its 75th jubilee July 26 – the feast of its patroness and St. Joachim, the parents of the Virgin Mary – with Mass and dinner. Archbishop Michael W. Banach, apostolic ...

Partners in Charity has a ways to go to reach its goal of raising $5 million in order to support 25 charitable, educational and pastoral ministries in the Diocese of Worcester, but Michael Gillespie, ...

St. Mary’s was not the first parish established in the Brookfields, but its church building is the oldest. How old has been the subject of research - and speculation. A look back is timely, since on ...

The Greek Orthodox leader preached about faith and unity at the Roman Catholic cathedral, where the Catholic bishop welcomed him warmly. Orthodox and Catholic Christians who participated in the ...

The lands of sunrise and sunset you fill with your joy (Psalm 65:8). The harmonious singing of cicadas in the afternoon, ancient temples with incense burning to strange deities, the mottled-gray of ...

STURBRIDGE/FISKDALE - Dana Babcock didn’t have time to go venerate Padre Pio’s relics. But, “I’m here,” she noted, after the Mass Bishop McManus celebrated Tuesday at St. Anne and St. Patrick ...

Saturday’s ordination of two men to the priesthood was filled with emotion. “It was very emotional and moving,” said Jacqueline Sullivan, whose son Zachary Sullivan is one of the two new priests. “I ...

Challenges to worship abroad, and unsatisfying self-help opportunities here, were part of stories of people initiated into the Church at the Easter Vigil at St. Anne Parish in Shrewsbury Saturday.