John Vassar, a Worcester native and 2011 St. John’s High School graduate, was named the school’s new head football coach today, to replace John Andreoli, who stepped down in December after 19 seasons. Mr. Vassar served as an assistant coach at St. John’s last season.

WORCESTER - Despite last June’s overturning of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, it’s still important to speak out against abortion. That belief was communicated by people who boarded buses at St. Paul Cathedral Thursday night for the 50th annual March for Life in the nation’s capital - and by those who joined them at a send-off Mass.

The African Ministry is planning to focus on the Eucharist in 2023 by offering eucharistic adoration, a Corpus Christi procession, revised instruction for youth and a regional Ghanaian convention.

Learning how to respond to emergencies – including using self-defense - is one way some girls of American Heritage Girls Troop 0716 are reflecting on the value of human life.

Father Sagar Gundiga, associate pastor of St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish, described “Adoration Under the Star” as a “great opportunity for people to adore, praise and glorify our Lord Jesus Christ"

"Our full-time job, just like God’s is to love, with a creative, obedient sacrificial and, above all, merciful love. Not just to be nice, but to love." Msgr. James P. Moroney told attendees at the Pro-Life Morning of Reflection and Enrichment.

They knew him before he was Pope Benedict XVI. Two diocesan priests and one layman share encounters with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.