Friends, today’s Gospel tells of the poor widow who gave her last penny to the temple treasury. Her behavior makes us consider our possessiveness.

In the Order of Christian Funerals, the text used by priests and deacons in the funeral rites, the Congregation for Divine Worship teaches us, “By means of the funeral rites it has been the practice ...

PAXTON – Youth expressed enthusiasm about God and their peers at a gathering where they were encouraged to maintain community, evangelize and pursue heaven. Asked her impressions of the 2024 Diocesan ...

Local Catholics have been joining in prayer for the United States and for peace in conjunction with today’s presidential election. Today there is day-long adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at St.

Francis R. Carroll, a business and civic leader whose philanthropy stretched from war-ravaged Korea and Vietnam to Worcester’s neediest neighborhoods, died on Oct. 29. In a statement, Bishop McManus ...

Mercy Centre, an entity of Catholic Charities Worcester County, currently located at 25 West Chester St. in Worcester, is slated to relocate to 216 West Boylston St. in West Boylston in March.

Sacred Heart-St. Catherine of Sweden Parish, 596 Cambridge St., will hold adoration monthly on First Friday, CLICK FOR DETAILS. Our Lady of Czestochowa, 34 Ward St., holds adoration 3-6:30 p.m.

Massachusetts residents are once again being asked to weigh in on the legalization of hallucinogenic substances known as psychedelics. The outcome of Massachusetts Ballot Question 4, set for Nov. 5, ...

College is expensive, but Anna Maria College, Assumption University and the College of the Holy Cross have announced new financial aid policies to make themselves more accessible. “I think we’re ...

Father Andre ‘Andy’ N. Remillard, 80, of West Yarmouth, peacefully passed in his home at the Cape, surrounded by those who loved him on Oct. 24. Born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island and raised in ...

In his book Purgatory, author Michael J. Taylor asks, “Is the concept of purgatory disappearing from Catholic belief and consciousness?” Taylor suggests that “changes in Church practice, along with ...

The diocesan Commission for Women will be hosting their annual mini-retreat at St. Anne Parish in Shrewsbury on Nov. 16. Francesca LaRosa, an internationally recognized Catholic composer whose music ...