Catholics encouraged to participate in '24 Hours for the Lord' March 28-29
BRAINTREE -- The Archdiocese of Boston will join dioceses throughout the world in observing 24 Hours for the Lord, an annual period of continuous eucharistic...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- The Archdiocese of Boston will join dioceses throughout the world in observing 24 Hours for the Lord, an annual period of continuous eucharistic...
Read MoreBOSTON -- More than 450 catechumens took their next step into entering the Catholic Church at the Rite of Election, presided over by Vicar General Bishop...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- Father Steve Josoma never asks refugees for their stories, but they have a way of coming up on their own. Father Josoma is the pastor of...
Read MoreAt the request of Archbishop Richard G. Henning, parishes across the archdiocese will announce the 2025 Catholic Appeal during all Masses on the weekend...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- "We just happened to be a bunch of guys that wanted to help and did something about it." That's how Scot Landry describes the founding...
Read MoreBOSTON -- "This is a little bit like conducting a 747," Richard Clark says as he looks out over the 250 fourth through 12th-grade singers filling the pews...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- "We just happened to be a bunch of guys that wanted to help and did something about it." That's how Scot Landry describes the founding...
Read MoreDORCHESTER -- Beginning the solemn season of Lent on Ash Wednesday, March 5, Archbishop Richard G. Henning celebrated the first of his three public Masses...
Read MoreFRANKLIN -- Time has made it easier for Father Bob Poitras to forgive. In October 2024, his parish, St. Mary in Franklin, was severely damaged by an arson...
Read MoreSOUTH BOSTON -- The lives of Matthew and Martin Mullen depended on a flipped coin in Florian Hall. The twin brothers were South Boston natives, baptized...
Read MoreBOSTON -- When Mary Sullivan found out that she had won the Cheverus Award, she was embarrassed. "I was uncomfortable and embarrassed about it," she told...
Read MoreBOSTON -- Seniors graduating from Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Boston got the chance to meet the people who supported their education at the...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- The faithful throughout the Archdiocese of Boston, both clergy and laity, were praying for the health of Pope Francis as he continued his...
Read MoreCHESTNUT HILL -- One is covered with autographs, the others are not, but the footballs all have the same words on them: "Father Jack." The game-used footballs...
Read MoreBOSTON -- The jazz was hot, and the joint was jumping. On the night of Feb. 18, a standing-room-only audience crowded into a dark basement on a narrow...
Read MoreDORCHESTER -- St. Katharine Drexel Parish in Dorchester, hub of the Archdiocese of Boston's Black Catholic community, hosted a Mass in honor of Black...
Read MoreAbstinence -- Catholics over 14 years of age are bound to the obligation of abstinence. Abstinence is to be observed on Ash Wednesday (March 5) and on...
Read More(OSV News) -- Catholic bishops throughout the U.S. are calling on faithful to pray for Pope Francis, now in critical condition in Rome's Gemelli hospital...
Read MoreBOSTON -- As he watched a chapel ceiling be painted, Father Jeremy Paulin saw the glory of God. Father Paulin, an Oblate of the Virgin Mary, has been...
Read MoreLOWELL -- When he was a parishioner at St. Rose of Lima in Chelsea, there was one thing Bernard Ba wanted to know from his pastor: The meaning of the phrase...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- Ryan McLean likes to say that Malta Camp USA is "everything that the world is not." McLean, a native of Hingham, has cerebral palsy and cannot...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- Father Paul Soper, director of clergy personnel for the Archdiocese of Boston, was honored with the Avery Cardinal Dulles Ad Intra Award at...
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