Friends, today’s Gospel gives an account of Herod’s murder of John the Baptist.

Bishop McManus has decreed that St. Paul Church in Warren is now an oratory in which the extraordinary form of the Mass will be celebrated. A religious community committed to the traditional Latin ...

Bishop McManus ordained seven men ages 27 to 43 to the priesthood Saturday at St. Paul Cathedral, 15 Chatham St., Worcester. Deacons James J. Boulette, Michael D. Hoye and Derek A. Mobilio grew up in ...

BLACKSTONE – Catholics who struggled through a merger found special reason to rejoice, when Bishop McManus blessed sanctuary renovations at their church – renovations which bring together elements of ...

Twenty-five years ago Msgr. Robert J. McManus had to shoo away a young seminarian from his office in Our Lady of Providence Seminary and rush over to the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul to meet ...

In his book, The Last Things, author Regis Martin observes that the Catholic theological study of “eschatology” is “the fruit of the Church’s most profound reflection on the meaning of death, judgment ...

In Catholic Health Care Ethics: A Manual for Practitioners, Second Edition, James M. DuBois writes “In the Catholic tradition, death is conceptualized as the separation of the soul from the body.” The ...

Maintenance work is underway on the bell tower of St. Paul Cathedral, thanks in part to the Legacy of Hope Capital Campaign. Repairs and repointing of the tower are part of the parish and diocesan ...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that the works of mercy are “charitable actions by which we come to the aid of our neighbors in their bodily and spiritual needs.” The catechism goes on ...

WORCESTER – Hope, despite darkness in the world, was a central theme at the Worcester diocese’s closing of the Jubilee Year. Bishop McManus, joined by Archbishop Michael W. Banach (originally from the ...

When Father Derek Mobilio met last month in Florida with the four FOCUS missionaries who will serve at Worcester State University and Quinsigamond Community College this coming school year, he was ...

(CNA) – Mary Jane Rein decided to leave her job as executive director of the Holocaust studies center at Clark University in Worcester, in hopes of finding a “warmer welcome” at a nearby Catholic ...