Julia Saksa is an electrical apprentice for Kuik Electric in Uxbridge. So it should come as no surprise to hear how she described attending the SEEK2026 Conference last weekend. “Yeah, it was electric ...

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 ...

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 ...

WORCESTER – What do icons have to do with Advent? And how might creating them be part of prayer, priesthood, evangelization and aid to immigrants? Just ask Father Donat Lamothe, a retired Augustinian ...

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 ...

WORCESTER – Our country needs a moral compass – and Catholic schools help provide that. Bishop McManus made this point at the Adopt-A-Student Recognition Reception Dec. 4 at St. Paul Diocesan Jr./Sr.

(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.

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 ...

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 ...

(OSV News) – For 50 years, the Steubenville Conferences have been forming teens in the faith and deepening adults’ faith journeys.The Worcester diocesan Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry ...