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Local Stories
Praying for work: Parish groups support the unemployed
By Jim LockwoodPosted: 7/30/2010
BRAINTREE -- Rich Brouillette was among the thousands of people across the country and the state of Massachusetts who lost his job during the current economic downturn.
MCFL endorses Cahill for governor
By Jim LockwoodPosted: 7/30/2010
BRAINTREE -- In endorsing a candidate in the state gubernatorial race, Massachusetts Citizens for Life (MCFL)'s political action committee threw their support to a candidate who said Roe v. Wade is "settled law" but sides with pro-lifers on key political issues.
From Cardinal Seán's blog
Posted: 7/30/2010
Last Friday (July 16), I was the main celebrant at the funeral of Father Jim Field, the pastor of Incarnation Parish in Melrose, who had been battling cancer for many months.
Inner-city youth back at camp enjoying sea breeze, forming friendships
By Jim LockwoodPosted: 7/23/2010
HULL -- Last summer, some local inner-city youth had to make other plans when a summer camp they had attended in previous years was temporarily shut down.
Archdiocese receives Vatican High Court ruling on parish closures
By Jim LockwoodPosted: 7/23/2010
BRAINTREE -- The Archdiocese of Boston has received official word from the Vatican, which has denied the appeals of nine churches shuttered by the archdiocese in 2004.
CYO golf tournament offers unique playing experience
By Jim LockwoodPosted: 7/23/2010
CANTON -- For many local youth golfers, the CYO Golf Tournament, organized by the Archdiocese of Boston's Office for the New Evangelization of Youth and Young Adults, offers a unique playing experience not often used at other tournaments and matches in which they often compete.
Obituary: His 'journey has comes to its end', Father James Field, 59
By Father Robert M. O'GradyPosted: 7/23/2010
He was always a teacher at heart and he was teaching up to his last breath. The long, often painful, obviously heroic, battle with cancer waged by Father James Field ended with his death in the Melrose parish on July 12, where he has been pastor since May 3, 2002. A priest who loved to communicate, and was especially apt at doing so in the context of the liturgy, in the past months used all kinds of means to keep in touch with his people and keep them informed of his condition -- physically, emotionally and spiritually. Local and regional newspapers captured snapshots of his life; local television stations ran human interest accounts of his illness.
From Cardinal Seán's blog
Posted: 7/23/2010
This week I have asked David Thorp to share some thoughts with you about the Catholics Come Home program, which invites inactive Catholics to once again return to the faith.
Relic of true cross stolen from cathedral
By Jim LockwoodPosted: 7/16/2010
BRAINTREE -- Parishioners are still praying for the safe return of one of the holiest and historically significant relics belonging to the Archdiocese of Boston that was stolen from its mother church earlier this month.
Station to bring 24/7 Catholic radio to Boston
By Jim LockwoodPosted: 7/16/2010
BRAINTREE -- A new voice in Catholic media is coming soon to the Archdiocese of Boston -- a Catholic radio station that will broadcast exclusive Catholic programming 24 hours per day and seven days per week.
Traditional marriage supporters criticize court ruling on DOMA
By Jim LockwoodPosted: 7/16/2010
BRAINTREE -- A federal judge's recent ruling regarding federal legislation that upholds heterosexual marriage has drawn criticism from both local and national traditional marriage supporters.
Obituary: Father James O'Rourke, former member of the St. James Society
By Father Robert M. O'GradyPosted: 7/16/2010
Central Regional Bishop Robert Hennessey was the principal celebrant and Father George Emerson, senior priest at St. Timothy, Norwood was the homilist at the funeral Mass for Father James J. O'Rourke celebrated June 25 at St. Columbkille Church, Brighton. A priest of the archdiocese since his ordination on Feb. 3, 1958, he had been for many years a member of the St. James Society. He died after a lengthy illness on June 21 in Boston.
Obituary: Father William Smith, lifelong parish priest
By Father Robert M. O'GradyPosted: 7/16/2010
Described by classmates, seminary contemporaries and friends as a simple, ordinary parish priest, Father William P. Smith died on July 9 in his native Winchester. He had been a senior priest of the archdiocese since his retirement a few months ago.
Pope chooses seminary rectors to be Boston bishops
By Jim LockwoodPosted: 7/2/2010
BRAINTREE -- Rectors of two seminaries within the Archdiocese of Boston have been chosen by Pope Benedict to become auxiliary bishops of the archdiocese -- a move that is regarded as significant by many in the archdiocese.
Bishops shocked by 'the call'
By Jim LockwoodPosted: 7/2/2010
BRAINTREE -- Becoming a bishop is a calling -- both from God and the pope. For one of the Archdiocese of Boston's newest auxiliary bishops, that call came while he was driving.
Pope Benedict accepts retirement of Bishop Allue
By Father Robert M. O'GradyPosted: 7/2/2010
BRAINTREE -- One of Bishop Allue's observations about his service as auxiliary bishop here in the archdiocese is that he's moved his residence more than any other bishop -- or maybe any other priest! On the other hand a review of his resume or curriculum vitae indicates that this has been kind of his history even before coming to Boston in 1996.
What is an auxiliary bishop?
By Father Robert M. O'GradyPosted: 7/2/2010
Auxiliary bishops frequently represent the residential or diocesan bishop in a specific area of the diocese. In most parts of the world the size of a diocese, its population concentrations, the demands of administration and the specialized character of an apostolate will require a diocesan bishop to select from among his priests certain persons whose abilities and experience suggest them as episcopal collaborators in the work of the Church. In turn, the residential bishop will depend upon the auxiliary bishop for advice in important decisions and matters of major importance. They become his "first assistants."
Episcopal ordination to be Sept. 14
By Father Robert M. O'GradyPosted: 7/2/2010
The Cathedral of the Holy Cross will be the setting for the episcopal ordination. The tentative date is the Cathedral's feast day, a solemnity in the cathedral, the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Sept. 14. The date has some historical relationships to previous episcopal ordinations.
Pope names Arthur Leo Kennedy Auxiliary Bishop of Boston
By Father Robert M. O'GradyPosted: 7/2/2010
Pope Benedict XVI has named the rector of St. John Seminary, Brighton, Father Arthur L. Kennedy as titular bishop of Timidana (in Mauritania Caesariense -- present day Algeria) and auxiliary of the archdiocese of Boston. At his ordination on Sept. 14 at Holy Cross Cathedral he will be the 34th auxiliary in the more than two century history of the archdiocese.
Rector of Blessed John XXIII National Seminary, Father Peter Uglietto, named auxiliary bishop
By Father Robert M. O'GradyPosted: 7/2/2010
When he is ordained bishop, Peter John Uglietto will be the 35th auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Boston and only the second one who comes from a proud Italian American family. The episcopal ordination, which raises two archdiocesan priests -- Bishop-elect Arthur L. Kennedy is the other -- to the fullness of the priesthood, will be celebrated in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, scheduled for the Solemnity of the Holy Cross, Sept.14.
'That they may know Thee'
Posted: 7/2/2010
Prepared remarks of Bishop-elect Arthur L. Kennedy prepared remarks delivered at the June 30 press conference announcing his appointment as auxiliary bishop of Boston
Supporting the ministry of reconciliation
Posted: 7/2/2010
Prepared remarks of Bishop-elect Peter J. Uglietto delivered at the June 30 press conference announcing his appointment as auxiliary bishop of Boston
Principal co-workers in the archdiocese
Posted: 7/2/2010
Excerpt of Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley's prepared remarks at the June 30 press conference announcing two new auxiliary bishops of Boston
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