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

Bishop McManus has announced transfers and one retirement affecting five diocesan priests and one deacon. All transfers are in effect.

A group of diocesan priests recently gathered for a five-day retreat sponsored by the Diocese of Worcester’s Office of Ongoing Priestly Formation.

St. Mary’s was not the first parish established in the Brookfields, but its church building is the oldest. A look back is timely, since on Tuesday this week the Brookfields’ parishes were merged to ...

Numerous changes for priests and parishes in the diocese this summer include a different rector for St. Paul Cathedral Parish and priests leading multiple parishes.

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 ...

The St. Anthony Food Pantry at the Sacred Heart-St. Catherine of Sweden Parish on Cambridge Street didn’t have a lot of food left when a woman in need entered one day.

GARDNER - Matthew Morse and Leah Sigall received sacraments at the Easter Vigil Saturday in Annunciation Parish's Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church. Both tell their journey stories and what ...

As we participate in the Church's liturgies, we use a complex system of symbols which we often only dimly understand. Learning about the symbols in the Church’s funeral liturgy can create greater ...

February23,2024 Interview by Margaret M. Russell | CFP Twenty-five years ago Msgr. Robert J. McManus had to shoo away a young seminarian from his office in Our Lady of Providence Seminary and rush ...

WORCESTER – As Our Lady of Lourdes Parish celebrated its 75th anniversary with the universal Church’s birthday, Bishop McManus compared attendance of the past and present, spoke of praying for a new ...

PAXTON - Sean J. Ryan, most recently from Bellarmine University in Kentucky, is to become the 12th president of Anna Maria College, the institution announced March 6. Mr. Ryan is to succeed current ...