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12/08/2025

GARDNER – On Sunday Bishop McManus made his final visit for Vespers to a Jubilee Year Worcester diocesan pilgrimage site – Annunciation Parish’s Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church – which includes art with Advent and Christmas themes. The bishop preached about people who have given him hope and told of leading pilgrims to Rome, where Pope Leo XIV conveyed his congratulations on the Worcester diocese’s 75th anniversary.

12/05/2025

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12/05/2025

The Adopt-A-Student Recognition Reception Dec. 4 at St. Paul Diocesan Jr./Sr. High School included awards for St. Paul scholars Michael Herrera, Ana Costanti and Lyncee Estime, and St. Peter Central Catholic scholar Trenaya Leshore. Bishop McManus, Michael Herrera and Anna Maria College President Sean J. Ryan gave talks, and the bishop and Father Donato Infante III offered prayers. Superintendent David Perda thanked sponsors and event committee members and announced the St. Paul Award for Joseph Bafaro, who couldn’t be there. Raffles supported the Robert R. Pape Memorial Scholarship Fund.

12/03/2025

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Visiting two countries over six days on his first foreign papal trip, Pope Leo XIV preached unity, dialogue and respect for differences as the only paths to peace.

11/28/2025

11/23/2025

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11/21/2025

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11/18/2025

This fall the Vatican paved the way for the Worcester diocese to begin the cause for potential canonization of a local Catholic – Ruth V. K. Pakaluk.

Ruth, a wife and mother from St. Paul Cathedral, was also known as an energetic, effective pro-life activist. She died at age 41 in 1998 after a long battle with cancer.

“There is no obstacle on the part of the Holy See to the cause of Beatification and Canonization” of this “Servant of God…” said a letter in Latin to Bishop McManus, dated Sept. 29. It was from Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. The granting of this “nihil obstat” means that nothing stands in the way of the Worcester diocese moving forward on the cause.

Ruth can now be called a Servant of God, the first step in a long process that could result in her being canonized a saint someday.

The granting of this “nihil obstat” means that nothing stands in the way of the Worcester diocese moving forward on the cause. Ruth can now be called a Servant of God, the first step in a long process that could result in her being canonized a saint someday.

11/17/2025

WORCESTER - The Guild of Our Lady of Providence celebrated its 75th anniversary Sunday with a Mass and meal at Blessed Sacrament Parish. The Guild was formed in May 1950. Members volunteered at and raised money for St. Vincent Hospital and now do other charitable work.

11/17/2025

SHREWSBURY - Kitty Cleveland, a singer and songwriter from the New Orleans area, shared her music and the story of her father’s imprisonment to bring the message of receiving Christ’s peace in the midst of turmoil to 80 people from four states. She was guest speaker at the annual women's retreat that the Commission for Women of the Diocese of Worcester hosted Saturday at St. Anne Parish. Father Adam Reid, pastor, preached at the opening Mass about finding peace in Jesus and being peacemakers.