By Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski OSV News The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed in the House of Representatives and is now in the Senate. The senators have a chance to reshape or alter some of the ...

About halfway through the Mass, the congregation offers a prayer asking God to accept the sacrifice about to be offered at the altar. Often labelled the “Sucipiat” after its first Latin word, the ...

VATICAN CITY -- Here is the English translation of Pope Francis I's remarks delivered from the balcony after his election as pope. Brothers and sisters, good evening. You know that the task of the ...

PROVIDENCE – Father John Soares, a familiar and popular figure on the Unversity of Rhode Island campus in Kingston for nearly 12 years, has been appointed pastor of St. Thomas Church on Fruit Hill in ...

CRANSTON— Father Joseph Iannuzzi may be considered a modern day renaissance man. A skilled violinist, former medical student and wrestler who once trained for the Olympic team, he performs more than ...

PROVIDENCE — In many churches around the world, visitors are often shocked to find the corpse of a Catholic saint contained in a glass coffin. Often hundreds of years old, the bodies of these saints ...

PROVIDENCE — At the 1906 dedication of Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Providence Bishop Matthew Harkins refused to celebrate Mass because of tensions with the church's first pastor, Father Antonio M.

JOHNSTON — Rev. Przemyslaw “Shemek” Lepak, pastor of St. Christopher and St. Theresa parishes in Tiverton wasn’t the only Rhode Island resident taking an oath of citizenship on the morning of Thursday ...

PROVIDENCE – Likening the overnight guests at Emmanuel House to the Holy Family who found refuge in a stable when there was no room at the inn, Bishop Thomas J. Tobin Tuesday night visited the ...

PORTSMOUTH — Rabbi Marc S. Jagolinzer, a native Rhode Islander, died peacefully in his home on October 22, 2017, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, at the age of 68. Rabbi Jagolinzer is survived by his ...

Hundreds gather to celebrate Mass on the steps of St. Mary Church in Cranston on Friday, July 17, as the parish celebrated the 110th observance of the Madonna della Civita feast. Click here to view or ...

On Good Friday afternoon as I drove to visit a dying friend, I listened to Father Raymond de Souza on the Catholic Channel preach on the Seven Last Words that Jesus spoke from the cross. Father de ...