Years ago, our young adult group was asked to go door-to-door in our inner-city parish “evangelizing.” We knew evangelicals did this by asking people, “Have you met Jesus?” and Jehovah’s Witnesses ...

When Susan Holmquist and her family traveled to Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, they were impressed by the wayside shrines they saw that contained paintings of the Blessed Virgin Mary, crucifixes ...

GARDNER – Bishop McManus shared some of his experiences of hope on Sunday, during his tenth and final visit to a Worcester diocesan pilgrimage church for the Jubilee Year of Hope. He also brought ...

Advent has arrived, Christmas is coming, and, with it, the giving of gifts – in celebration of God’s gift of his Son. Who might you gift with your gratitude or joy this season? Maybe the new baby. You ...

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, ...

(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 ...

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.

WORCESTER – When the St. Paul Diocesan Jr./Sr. High School girls’ volleyball team hosts Notre Dame Academy on Monday, Sept. 8, in the first sporting event this fall in the St. Paul gymnasium, the gym ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The newest parish in the diocese is being named for the first millennial saint, whose canonization is set for September. Blessed Carlo Acutis will be the name of the new parish being formed from the ...