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Deacon Christopher Connelly

Casting a wider net: The Diaconate Formation Program and distance learning

Maureen Crowley Heil

A Great Day is Coming!

Dick Flavin

We all fall victim to age

Scott Hahn

Life by faith

Jaymie Stuart Wolfe

In the company of the angels

Charles C. Camosy

What are pigs for?

Quincy Night 4 Life venue, time changed due to weather

Estate sale bargain turns out to be page from 13th-century French missal

Contemplative communities: Cistercian nuns labor in love at Mount St. Mary's Abbey

Is Pope Francis' diplomacy of dialogue failing?

Lay associates appointed directors of Seaport Shrine

Mission Church to celebrate 150th anniversary

From Cardinal Seán's blog

An 1871 account: 'the holy work of the Mission in this Church'

Hurricane Ian leaves catastrophe in Florida, Cuba, millions without power

Nicaragua president calls church a dictatorship, bishops 'murderers'

Estate sale bargain turns out to be page from 13th-century French missal

Sep. 27 2022

WATERVILLE, Maine (CNS) -- Will Sideri's bargain buy of an old document at an estate sale in Waterville turned out to be a page from a 700-year-old French...

Nation

Maine OKs first religious school for tuition reimbursement

Sep. 30 2022
DAVID SHARP ASSOCIATED PRESS

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Maine is ready to fund tuition for some religious school students for the first time since a Supreme Court ruling in June ordered...

Is Pope Francis' diplomacy of dialogue failing?

Sep. 30 2022
CLAIRE GIANGRAVE RELIGION NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY (RNS) -- Pope Francis returned from his brief trip to Kazakhstan, a country nestled between Russia and China, having failed to sit down with...

Hurricane Ian leaves catastrophe in Florida, Cuba, millions without power

Sep. 29 2022
RHINA GUIDOS, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- It's too early to tell the extent of Hurricane Ian's damage in the Catholic dioceses of Venice and St. Petersburg or the rest of the...

Nicaragua president calls church a dictatorship, bishops 'murderers'

Sep. 29 2022
DAVID AGREN, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MEXICO CITY (CNS) -- Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega blasted Catholic leaders as a "gang of murderers," in comments amping up persecution of the church...

Food cannot be used as 'bargaining chip,' pope says

Sep. 29 2022
JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The international community can no longer ignore the cries of the poor and the hungry who fall victim to food loss and waste, Pope...

Quincy Night 4 Life venue, time changed due to weather

Sep. 30 2022
JACQUELINE TETRAULT PILOT STAFF

QUINCY -- Due to forecasted rain on Oct. 1, the annual Night 4 Life, originally set to be held at Quincy's Veterans Memorial Stadium, is being relocated...

Contemplative communities: Cistercian nuns labor in love at Mount St. Mary's Abbey

Sep. 30 2022
JACQUELINE TETRAULT PILOT STAFF

WRENTHAM -- Daily work can take many different forms for the Cistercian nuns at Mount St. Mary's Abbey. But whether they are tending the sheep, caring...

Lay associates appointed directors of Seaport Shrine

Sep. 30 2022
JACQUELINE TETRAULT PILOT STAFF

SOUTH BOSTON -- Since its opening in 2017, Our Lady of Good Voyage Seaport Shrine has been led by a series of priests staying for a short period of time....

Mission Church to celebrate 150th anniversary

Sep. 30 2022
JACQUELINE TETRAULT PILOT STAFF

BOSTON -- In past decades, the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, commonly known as Mission Church, was called the "Lourdes of the East" because of...

From Cardinal Seán's blog

Sep. 30 2022

Friday, I celebrated a Mass for the beginning of the school year at St. Mary's for the three Catholic schools of Lynn -- St. Mary's, Sacred Heart,...

An 1871 account: 'the holy work of the Mission in this Church'

Sep. 30 2022

The following is an excerpt of a letter to the editor published in the June 24, 1871, issue of The Pilot recounting a procession at the then-newly established...