• Youth retreat draws teens from around diocese
    Youth retreat draws teens from around diocese
    June 3, 2022
    35 teenagers share their faith at Diocesan Youth Retreat hosted by the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry.
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  • Faith passed down from generation to generation, soon-to-be priest says
    Faith passed down from generation to generation, soon-to-be priest says
    June 3, 2022
    At the age of 32, Deacon Derek Mobilio eagerly anticipates his upcoming ordination to the priesthood on June 18 at St. Paul Cathedral in Worcester
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  • Family’s religious fervor influences vocation to priesthood
    Family’s religious fervor influences vocation to priesthood
    May 30, 2022
    Family's faith influences Deacon Juan David Parra Rave who is awaiting ordination to the priesthood for the Diocese of Worcester June 18.
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  • Bishop addresses first class of Thomas Aquinas College
    Bishop addresses first class of Thomas Aquinas College
    May 27, 2022
    On Saturday, Bishop McManus addressed the 32 members of the first graduating class of Thomas Aquinas College, New England, in Northfield. Also, he received the college’s highest honor.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox Church buys former Ascension Church
    Ethiopian Orthodox Church buys former Ascension Church
    May 27, 2022
    WORCESTER – The former Ascension Church building and the attached Msgr. Edmond T. Tinsley Center were sold for $250,000 to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church that has been worshiping there for several years,
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  • Archbishop Banach to represent Pope in Hungary
    Archbishop Banach to represent Pope in Hungary
    May 27, 2022
    Auburn native Archbishop Michael W. Banach will be moving from western Africa to central Europe this summer to start his new post as papal ambassador to Hungary.
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  • Names of new parishes announced in decrees
    Names of new parishes announced in decrees
    May 27, 2022
    New names have been announced for parishes that are merging July 1 in two areas of the diocese. The Diocese of Worcester has published decrees merging the parishes.
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  • Putting it all in the hands of God
    Putting it all in the hands of God
    May 20, 2022
    Julio Rafael Granados Alvarado wanted to be an engineer. But what did God want? Along the road to priesthood he had to find the answer to that question.
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  • Assumption President Cesareo talks about accomplishments
    Assumption President Cesareo talks about accomplishments
    May 19, 2022
    WORCESTER – Francesco C. Cesareo looks at his presidency at Assumption University as a ministry that involved his family and served students, the Church and the community.
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  • Eucharistic revival on horizon
    Eucharistic revival on horizon
    May 19, 2022
    In preparation for a eucharistic revival on the local level, Bishop McManus has convened a working group to advise and support the Office for Divine Worship.
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  • Sister of Life: People made to give, receive love
    Sister of Life: People made to give, receive love
    May 19, 2022
    Though abortion has become a hotbed for angry political debates, Sister Maria Regina, of the Sisters of LIfe, spoke to Holy Cross students about it with genuine love and gentleness.
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  • Brazilian to become priest calls Worcester home
    Brazilian to become priest calls Worcester home
    May 12, 2022
    “I’m not going home,” replies Deacon Thiago Rodrigues Ibiapina, a native Brazilian preparing to be a priest for the Diocese of Worcester. When traveling to Brazil “I’m going to visit my parents. My home today is here. … That’s my Church.”
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  • St. Paul senior heading to Oxford University
    St. Paul senior heading to Oxford University
    May 12, 2022
    WORCESTER - Isabella Christie has never been to the town of Oxford, which is about 10 miles from her home. But the senior at St. Paul High School plans to spend four years in England at the University of Oxford.
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  • Brother J. Conal Owens, C.F.X., 93
    Brother J. Conal Owens, C.F.X., 93
    May 12, 2022
    SHREWSBURY – Brother J. Conal Owens, C.F.X., 93, longtime headmaster of St. John’s High School, died Saturday, May 7. His funeral is May 17, at 9:30 a.m. May 17 in the Coaches Pavilion at St. John’s High School.
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  • 'Regular guys' play basketball, become priests
    'Regular guys' play basketball, become priests
    May 9, 2022
    STILL RIVER – An exhibition basketball game between seminarians and other young men provided an opportunity to encourage vocations – by showing that prospective priests are “regular guys.”
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  • Cautious optimism for abortion case
    Cautious optimism for abortion case
    May 6, 2022
    “Since the oral arguments in the Dobbs case were heard by the Supreme Court last winter, there has been much cautious optimism and hope that this pivotal decision could possibly overturn Roe and Casey,” Allison LeDoux, director of the Respect Life Office for the Diocese of Worcester, said.
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  • Venezuelan cardinal brings relic to cathedral
    Venezuelan cardinal brings relic to cathedral
    May 6, 2022
    WORCESTER – Venezuelans rejoiced as Cardinal Baltazar Porras Cardozo, archbishop of Mérida, Venezuela, brought a relic of a saintly Venezuelan to St. Paul Cathedral last Saturday.
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  • Visitation House values motherhood
    Visitation House values motherhood
    May 6, 2022
    WORCESTER – Motherhood involves accepting one’s loss of control, realizing children are a gift and, like Christ, even giving one’s body for them, Janice Chik Breidenbach told 250 people at a fundraiser for Visitation House.
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  • Bishop blesses chapel at St. Cecilia
    Bishop blesses chapel at St. Cecilia
    May 6, 2022
    LEOMINSTER – A new chapel at St. Cecilia Parish, dedicated to Divine Mercy and St. Joseph, was blessed by Bishop McManus last Saturday.
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  • Bishop talks to Catholic World Report
    Bishop talks to Catholic World Report
    May 6, 2022
    “The sexual abuse crisis in the Church, which became public in 2001,” says the bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, “was a watershed moment in the Church’s loss of positive influence in the lives of Catholics.”
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