News - December 2020 RSS Feed

'We are deeply disappointed by the failure of the Massachusetts legislature to uphold Governor Baker’s veto of legislation which further expands access to abortion ...'

In mid-November the diocese polled ministry leaders asking this question: How you are dealing with keeping your department going during this pandemic?

We will start our reflection of 2020 by looking at how people responded to the Legacy of Hope campaign despite the financial uncertainty caused by the pandemic.

Leonidas Dos Reis used to cook for weddings and restaurants, but nothing gives him more satisfaction than preparing meals for the homeless at Hotel Grace.

Latinos from various countries start the Advent and Christmas season with Mary, a woman with various names.

All Saints Academy students have been rubbing elbows in high places. On Nov. 30 three youngsters from this Webster school exchanged elbow bumps with First Lady Melania Trump.

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, As Advent gives way to Christmas, we find ourselves in a continued state of waiting, longing and expectation ...

Beginning the day after Christmas, churches will only be allowed to let in 25 percent of the building’s capacity.

Despite smaller numbers of people in church, parishes have managed to collect just as many, or nearly as many, Christmas presents for those in need.

A Catholic Charities director helped package the bishop’s dinner on Thanksgiving Day. And she is looking for help on Christmas. "We’ve got to do it all again.”

The House Wednesday rejected, 49-107, Gov. Charlie Baker’s suggested changes to an amendment to the fiscal 2021 budget bill which expands abortion.

Central Catholic schools in the diocese are to do all remote learning, before and after the Christmas vacation, to give teachers a break.

Many parishes held novenas this year. St. Cecilia Parish in Leominster replaced its parish festival with a novena in honor of its patroness.

Christmas Eve Masses in the Worcester Diocese can be celebrated earlier in the day this year, in light of space limitations and a state curfew aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus.

Many of the African Ministry's goals for 2020 went unrealized because of the pandemic. The ministry will try to bring them to fruition in 2021.

Sister Paula A. Kelleher reflects on religious life and Bishop McManus calls for religious retirement support.

Eileen Charbonneau's second book, “Erin’s Children,” was officially released on Dec. 1, a sequel to her first, “Kelegeen,” about the Irish potato famine.

The coronavirus may have kept away some customers – but brought in others. You might say it’s provided an incentive to seek – and share – God.

Find-faith related gifts that last a lifetime.