For the First Saturday devotion, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, a person must go to confession, receive holy Communion, recite five decades of the rosary, and keep Mary company for ...

Undertaking construction of the present church was Father Edward W. Lynch, who was sickly when ordained, but ended up being pastor for 30 years. After he was appointed pastor in 1950, “the kids at ...

June8,2023 By Father Thiago Ibiapinaassociate pastor, Annunciation Parish, Gardner Special to The Catholic Free Press This weekend we celebrate the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, often ...

March1,2024 By Tanya Connor | The Catholic Free Press WORCESTER – An estimated 300 Hispanics from several parishes were shown connections between their activities and the annual Partners in Charity ...

November16,2024 By Father Michael N. Lavallee pastor, St. Peter Parish, Northbridge The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that the works of mercy are “charitable actions by which we come to ...

Timothy McMahon, executive director of Catholic Charities Worcester County, reported that food distribution has increased by 70 percent at his organization’s food pantries in Worcester, Leominster, ...

Joseph Bulger Jr., former sexton, said he had rescued the Fatima statue at his mother’s request in the 1970s when “they were tearing everything down” in the church. His mother spotted the statue in ...

February23,2024 Interview by Margaret M. Russell | CFP Twenty-five years ago Msgr. Robert J. McManus had to shoo away a young seminarian from his office in Our Lady of Providence Seminary and rush ...

A group of diocesan priests recently gathered at Miramar Retreat Center, Duxbury, for a five-day retreat sponsored by the Diocese of Worcester’s Office of Ongoing Priestly Formation. The theme of the ...

St. Paul Church in Warren is now an oratory in which the extraordinary form of the Mass will be celebrated. A religious community committed to the traditional Latin Mass, and new to the Diocese of ...

On Sept. 10, 1922, St. Mary Parish was established and Father Thomas F. McKoan became the first resident pastor. Mass was held in St. Theresa’s, but the growth of the town demanded a larger church.

She said it’s important to build relationships, so people see pro-lifers’ support for women “and connect that with the true message of the pro-life movement.” She has had fruitful conversations with ...