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March 5, 2021Jesuit Father James M. Hayes, from the College of the Holy Cross, compared St. Francis Xavier to Christ and held him up as an example and intercessor.Read More -
March 5, 2021Pilgrimages, devotions and holy images are among ways local Catholics are celebrating the Year of St. Joseph, which Pope Francis declared on Dec. 8.Read More -
March 5, 2021The St. Joseph shrine in the fourth-grade class at St. Joseph School in Webster is unique. It is based on the devotion to the “Sleeping Saint Joseph.”Read More -
March 5, 2021“I’m very thankful... about how much people appreciate ... things we’re trying to do to help them stay connected to each other, to the sacraments and to God.”Read More -
March 5, 2021Local students’ March for Life signs were appreciated by pro-lifers around the country, and five students are being awarded prizes for their work.Read More -
February 27, 2021Once the music director at St. John the Evangelist Parish in Clinton, and still a parishioner there, Paul Jernberg has been composing sacred music for 25 years.Read More -
February 27, 2021The Worcester Catholic Men's Conference is organizing remote sites where small groups of men can “attend” together on March 20.Read More -
February 27, 2021The pandemic has created hardship, but also opportunity. “It forced us into the 21st century,” said Father Kenneth R. Cardinale, pastor at St. John Paul II Parish in Southbridge.Read More -
February 27, 2021No sports season taught Cody Smith or Connor Knowles more about fighting through tough times than the one that the St. Paul boys’ basketball team had.Read More -
February 18, 2021This year’s Lenten journey ... will again be different. But ... the reasons for, and the fruits of, this annual holy season of prayer, penance and almsgiving remain the same.Read More -
February 18, 2021Barry Finneron has coached high school basketball for nearly half a century. But nothing he experienced prepared him for molding a team out of former rivals.Read More -
February 18, 2021Inviting students to attend SEEK21 was just the latest way that the FOCUS team has been encouraging them in the faith since it began its WPI missionary journey.Read More -
February 12, 2021In second Lent of pandemic, parishes are looking at how to enable people to safely and conveniently participate in devotions and receive formation.Read More -
February 11, 2021At an outdoor fire, leaders and parishioners of St. Mary of the Hills Parish in Boylston prayed and prepared for Lent, burning palms and petitions.Read More -
February 11, 2021For their Catholic Schools Week service project at St. Anna Elementary School in Leominster, eighth-graders made blankets for other children.Read More -
February 11, 2021All Saints Academy in Webster strives to guide students to be good citizens, to love God and neighbor, and to enrich society with Gospel messages.Read More -
February 11, 2021Vincent D. Rougeau, dean of Boston College Law School, was named the 33rd president of the College of the Holy Cross.Read More -
February 9, 2021Receiving ashes on Ash Wednesday will be different this year, because of the coronavirus. The diocese is making recommendations for continuing this tradition safely.Read More -
February 5, 2021Bishop McManus asks the faithful to support the new Ash Wednesday Collection that will assist diocesan retired priests.Read More -
February 4, 2021WEBSTER – On Sunday the St. Joseph School community gathered to kick-off Catholic Schools Week. Following the Migration Mass, Bishop McManus toured St. Joseph School.Read More