NEW BEDFORD — Did you know that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River could have been the Diocese of New Bedford? The grand-looking Saint Anthony of Padua Church on Acushnet Avenue and its ...

Pope Leo XIV appears on the central loggia of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome after Cardinal Protodeacon Dominique Mamberti ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became the first American-born pope on May 8. Here's how local Catholics reacted to the news.

A greased pole climbing competition, meatballs, half ball, gelato, tacos and more! The 9th street fest is back with a bang.

If immigrants have to worry about being deported amid Trump’s crackdown, they’re less likely to report mistreatment.

Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, has died at the age of 88 ... Popes are usually buried at St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, but Francis had said he wanted to be interred ...

The news of his death, announced by the Vatican on Monday morning, reverberated across the globe, with people mourning the pontiff in the streets and inside churches and other places of worship.

Before his death, Pope Francis approved the canonization of Carlo Acutis, who will be the first millennial Catholic saint ... the first stop being St. Anthony of Padua Church in Red Bank.