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The second step in missionary evangelizing involves the way we are “caring” or not caring for people, John and Therese Boucher tell us.

K&B’s Krayons and Beyond, a nonprofit organization in Westborough, delivered carloads of clothes to Catholic Charities recently and the two discussed a long-term partnership.

Ninety-nine-year-old Father C. Romeo Lamothe, a retired priest of the Diocese of Worcester, died Tuesday, October 13, at the Rose Monahan Hospice in Worcester.

Pope Francis appointed Father William Draper Byrne, a College of the Holy Cross graduate and a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, as the 10th Bishop of Springfield. Bishop McManus has been serving as apostolic administrator in Springfield.

Intercessory prayer calls us to slow down and focus on the needs of one person at a time, John and Therese Boucher say in their column "Sharing the Love of Christ in pandemic times."

Women in the Worcester Diocese have joined others around the world offering holy hours for priests through the Seven Sisters Apostolate.

The memory of Grace Rett – and the example she set – are being kept alive in part through Our Lady of the Valley Regional School’s planned $3 million GRACE Center.

In a world where so much divides us, World Mission Sunday rejoices in our unity as missionaries by our baptism, Bishop McManus says in a letter to the Diocese.

"Abortion is a … blight on the soul of our great nation, and it cries out to the heavens for penance and reparation,” Bishop McManus said at Respect Life Sunday Mass where four people were honored for their pro-life work.

People were told some ways they can live out the message of St. Francis and Pope Francis in a celebration of the Season of Creation in the Worcester Diocese.

The invitation to bring others to Jesus is first of all an invitation to intercede in evangelizing prayer for them. It’s an invitation to move beyond our own needs, to give voice to other people’s needs.

In August, Grace Donfield and Kara Moquin did something extraordinary; the teens founded a nonprofit organization, From Girls to Girls.

The 7th Annual Celebrate Priesthood! – Taste of the Diocese – will be a virtual event this year, organizers have announced.

As Spectrum announces they will stop broadcasting the TV Mass, people are concerned for those who won't have access to the Mass.

Bishop McManus announced that the Diocese of Worcester has been named in a lawsuit, along with Father Thomas E. Mahoney, retired priest of the diocese, for abuse of a minor in the 1970s.

WORCESTER - Bishop McManus spoke out against “death-dealing” bills in the Massachusetts Legislature Monday night at a novena where prayers are said for the sick and dying.

Kaley Somers of Worcester recently became the second girl in Massachusetts to receive an American Heritage Girl Stars & Stripes Award.

Annual Pro-Life Awards will be presented at a Mass celebrated by Bishop McManus at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 4, in St. Paul Cathedral.

The diocese has been notified that as of Oct. 23, Spectrum will cease carrying the Daily and Sunday Mass and other programming by the TV Ministry.

WORCESTER – Memories and gratitude flowed along with tears, as alumni and families of St. Stephen School returned Saturday.