Friends, our Gospel today is taken from Jesus’s Sermon on the Plain in Luke. It is one of the more puzzling texts in the New Testament.

Bishop McManus has announced transfers and one retirement affecting five diocesan priests and one deacon. All transfers are in effect. Father Juan D. Echavarría, pastor of St. Mary of the Hills Parish ...

That’s what a popular deacon challenged people attending Saturday’s Worcester Diocesan Catholic Men’s Conference to do. Dead things go with the flow in a river; salmon fight upstream to give life, ...

In the last article, the topics of death and judgment were covered. In this, The United States Catholic Catechism for Adults was cited which explains: “Immediately after death, each person comes ...

In Catholic Health Care Ethics: A Manual for Practitioners, Second Edition, James M. DuBois writes “In the Catholic tradition, death is conceptualized as the separation of the soul from the body.” The ...

WINCHENDON – Catholics who care about statues gathered after Mass recently at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish. The occasion was a “meet and greet” to thank the untrained but faith-filled artist who ...

The lands of sunrise and sunset you fill with your joy (Psalm 65:8). The harmonious singing of cicadas in the afternoon, ancient temples with incense burning to strange deities, the mottled-gray of ...

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 ...

The Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference announced that Father Donald Calloway, MIC will be the opening speaker of the 24th annual Men’s Conference. Before his conversion to Catholicism, Father ...

Family and friends have helped college students embrace and share pro-life beliefs. Fernanda Calix, a Worcester Polytechnic Institute junior, was affected by the grandfather she doesn’t remember.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that the works of mercy are “charitable actions by which we come to the aid of our neighbors in their bodily and spiritual needs.” The catechism goes on ...

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 ...