Friends, our Gospel for today features the parable of the mustard seed.

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 ...

When Father Derek Mobilio met last month in Florida with the four FOCUS missionaries who will serve at Worcester State University and Quinsigamond Community College this coming school year, he was ...

(CNA) – Mary Jane Rein decided to leave her job as executive director of the Holocaust studies center at Clark University in Worcester, in hopes of finding a “warmer welcome” at a nearby Catholic ...

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 ...

Several pastors in the diocese are to change parishes this summer, and some other priests are getting new assignments. Bishop McManus did not announce any retirements, but two pastors are becoming ...

A class assignment at Catholic schools several states apart blossomed into a 20-year friendship that demonstrates the value of handwritten letters in an age of technology. “This started at St. Stephen ...

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 ...

Symbols feature prominently in our daily lives. One of the most notable ways we frequently experience symbols is through our computer keyboard or touch screen. The letters and numbers we enter into ...

LEICESTER - St. Joseph Church has overlooked Main Street for more than 150 years, but it has been closed for nearly a decade and soon it will be torn down. Nathan Schroeder, director of facilities for ...

His vocation suddenly became clear – at the Hour of Divine Mercy. Father John Louis Larochelle, 40, who was ordained a priest for the Worcester Diocese Saturday, tells the following story of how this ...

Parish renewal, which focuses on revitalizing and growing Christ’s Church, has become the topic of discussion in the Worcester diocese. In June, Divine Renovation principles were introduced to the ...