Bishop McManus told the graduates of St. John's High School, Shrewsbury, that the role of Catholic education is to instill the love of Truth. "You must live by the Truth ... It is only the Truth that ...

As part of the series Conversation with Bishop McManus, a show produced by the diocese’s Communication Ministry, Raymond L. Delisle, director, sat down with the bishop ahead of his 75th birthday on ...

Priests of the diocese celebrating significant anniversaries of their ordination this year were recognized at the Chrism Mass Tuesday at St. Paul Cathedral. This year, three priests are celebrating ...

WORCESTER – Before Mother Miriam of the Lamb of God became the Benedictine she is today, she was Rosalind Moss, a girl who grew up in a traditional Jewish home in New York. So, when she was around ...

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 ...

On March 7, 1950 some 15,000 people crowded the streets around the newly designated St. Paul Cathedral at the corner of Chatham and High streets in Worcester as Bishop John J. Wright was installed the ...

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 ...

WORCESTER – An empty stable. A teen drop-in. Even a first kiss. These were memories shared after St. Christopher Parish’s final Sunday Mass last weekend. The parish merged Wednesday, along with Our ...

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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 ...

With the installation of Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski as the ordinary for the Archdiocese of St Louis, it was announced today that His Holiness, Pope Francis, has appointed Most Reverend Robert J.