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Bishop McManus has published an updated report following the review of all cases of sexual abuse of minors since the Worcester Diocese was established in 1950. This report serves as an update to the 2004 report by then Bishop Daniel P. Reilly.

GILBERTVILLE – Want to meet the saints? Then come along with The Catholic Free Press to St. Aloysius Catholic School. It’s Catholic Schools Week, and on Tuesday students are dressed as saints. (That’s one way of getting out of uniforms!)

FITCHBURG – Brian Gardiner, the father of St. Bernard’s High School students, was moved to help families get free college financial aid services from his friend’s company, Campus Bound. Read how families have saved thousands of dollars.

WEBSTER – Like any good teacher, Bishop McManus asked and answered questions Sunday at a Mass kicking off Catholic Schools Week for St. Joseph Elementary School.

On Feb. 2, many communities remember the celebrations connected with the feast of the Presentation of the Child Jesus in the Temple, Sister Paula Kelleher reflects on consecrated life.

The Diocese of Worcester has dedicated $54,000 in Partners in Charity funds to help pay utility bills for those in need. A total of 28 parishes received funds to be distributed to parishioners.

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.

In talking with colleagues and friends about the March for Life, Deacon David Vaillancourt found that many wondered what would be different this year, and why there would be a march, because of the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court last summer.

After attending the national March for Life, students from Trivium School in Lancaster said states should unite in abolishing abortion. “If we have different laws, that doesn’t show that there’s one answer,” said senior Viola Townsend.

Many women and their children can rejoice because of the life-changing support they have received from local pro-life pregnancy centers.

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.

Fathers Michael Hoye and Lucas LaRoche were at the Vatican for Pope Benedict XVI's funeral and were able to concelebrate. They share their reflections.

St. John Paul II Parish is sending out a call for talent show acts. If you can sing or dance, Father Kenneth R. Cardinale, pastor of the parish in Southbridge, would like to hear from you. It's for a good cause.

The moment of grace for the Church, I believe, was the time that Cardinal Ratzinger was Dean of the College of Cardinals and was designated as the celebrant of Pope John Paul II’s funeral Mass.

Some will remember Pope Benedict XVI as a theologian, or as “God’s Rottweiler,” but others are also reflecting on the influence the man had on teaching about the dangers of relativism in a world conflicted by the most basic truths about life and love