Father David G. Thurber Jr., pastor of St. Barnabas Church, Portsmouth, offers words of welcome and gratitude during his promotion ceremony on Monday, April 24. Father Thurber was promoted the rank of ...

COVENTRY — In the Litany of Loreto, the Blessed Mother’s queenship is mentioned 13 times. Among her many titles, she is named as Queen of Angels, Queen of Saints and Queen of Families. … ...

On Monday, May 1, Pope Francis accepted the retirement of Most Rev. Thomas J. Tobin, D.D., from pastoral governance. Bishop Tobin was installed as the eighth Bishop of Providence on May 31, 2005, in ...

St. Ignatius of Antioch (35 – 110 A.D.) converted as an adult to Christianity and became the third bishop of Antioch, which is in present day Turkey, an office originally held by St. Peter the Apostle ...

At left, the former cathedra installed at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul in 1972. At right is the new Italian marble cathedra installed on June 9 that will be blessed and first used this Sunday ...

PROVIDENCE — Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Diocese of Providence has postponed its annual Lumen Gentium Service Awards Banquet until the spring. The banquet, which honors those who work ...

CHICAGO — Rhode Island Catholic and its Spanish language publication, El Católico de Rhode Island, were honored on Thursday, July 2, with a combined 27 awards by the Catholic Press Association of the ...

PROVIDENCE — As the end of the school year approaches, many have reflected on an unconventional closing of a chapter and cautiously look ahead to the fall with a mix of hope and preparation. Beginning ...

Rhode Island Catholic Executive Editor Rick Snizek interviewed Dr. Timothy P. Flanigan, M.D., a deacon in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, who serves as a professor of medicine at the Alpert ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Brother Francis Ryan McCarty, O.S.B., has professed solemn vows as a monk of Saint Anselm Abbey. On February 2, 2020, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord and the World Day of ...

MIDDLETOWN — Students and faculty at All Saints Academy in Middletown have much to be thankful for. A recent grant of approximately $86,000 from the van Beuren Foundation has allowed the ...

More than 30 people took part in the 40 Days for Life, Fall campaign for the Diocese of Providence in early October. The Office of Life and Family ministry invites the community to join them in prayer ...