(OSV News) – At the end of his Sept. 24 audience, Pope Leo XIV issued an invitation to Catholics worldwide. “I invite everyone to pray the rosary every day during the coming month – for peace – ...

It is said that the appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe was the single most powerful evangelization event since Pentecost. Guadalupe happens to be the geographical center of the Americas; therefore, ...

Young people, parents and priests were among those celebrating locally the canonization of Sts. Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati, the two young men whom Pope Leo XIV named saints on Sunday.

St. Mary’s was not the first parish established in the Brookfields, but its church building is the oldest. How old has been the subject of research - and speculation. A look back is timely, since on ...

The Greek Orthodox leader preached about faith and unity at the Roman Catholic cathedral, where the Catholic bishop welcomed him warmly. Orthodox and Catholic Christians who participated in the ...

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 ...

LUNENBURG – St. Boniface Parish’s 75th anniversary Mass Sunday – like the parish, priests and parishioners themselves – drew newer and long-time members. In his homily Bishop McManus said the ...

STURBRIDGE/FISKDALE - Dana Babcock didn’t have time to go venerate Padre Pio’s relics. But, “I’m here,” she noted, after the Mass Bishop McManus celebrated Tuesday at St. Anne and St. Patrick ...

Challenges to worship abroad, and unsatisfying self-help opportunities here, were part of stories of people initiated into the Church at the Easter Vigil at St. Anne Parish in Shrewsbury Saturday.

WORCESTER - With gratitude, rejoicing and hope members of the Worcester diocese celebrated its 75th anniversary March 2 with a Mass and reception at St. Paul Cathedral. Bishop McManus brought them ...

Msgr. Richard F. Reidy, vicar general and moderator of the curia, has been appointed by Pope Francis as the next bishop of the Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut. Bishop-elect Reidy’s appointment was ...

Friendship, spirituality and service are the three pillars of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. “I’ve made a lot of friends that I would not have made if I hadn’t joined my parish’s St. Vincent de Paul ...