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Lowell Irish Cultural Week kicks off with Mass, parade
LOWELL -- Everyone is Irish during Irish Cultural Week in Lowell. Just ask Lowell City Councilman Sokhary Chau, who, from 2022 to 2024, was the first Cambodian American mayor of any U.S. city. In honor of the 41st annual Lowell Irish Cultural Week, which began on March 10 and will continue until March 17, St. Patrick's Day, Chau was affectionately nicknamed "McChau" and "O'Chau."
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109-year-old Sister Evelyn Hurley reflects on her South Boston upbringing, ministry
BRAINTREE -- When Sister of Charity of Nazareth Evelyn Hurley was born in South Boston on March 7, 1915, Woodrow Wilson had been president of the United States for four days. Benedict XV was pope. World War I had been raging in Europe for less than a year. Women in Massachusetts were not allowed to vote in most elections. Horses still carried sleds of ice through the streets of South Boston, delivering it to homes with the ice boxes that were common before the days of refrigeration. One day, Sister Evelyn saw one of the horses slip and fall.
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Cathedral hosts New England Pueri Cantores Youth Choir Festival
BOSTON -- To Richard Clark, music director of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, few sounds are as joyful to hear as over 100 children singing in unison. Clark got to hear that sound all day on March 9, when 108 young singers came to the cathedral for the New England Pueri Cantores Youth Choir Festival. After a day of rehearsal, the students sang a Mass celebrated by Bishop Robert Reed.
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Forming the Future: 'It's a sense of home' says longtime teacher at St. Columbkille Partnership School, Brighton
BRIGHTON -- Jean O'Connor, who has taught first grade at St. Columbkille Partnership School in Brighton for 38 years, is something of an institution at the school. Just don't tell her that. "I'm not one to talk about myself," O'Connor told The Pilot in November. "It's a job. It's something that I love coming to do. I just want to make an impact on the kids that I have."
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Father Pio Gottin's ministry to Cape Verdean community remembered at Mass
ROXBURY -- As the personal physician for Father Pio Gottin, Dr. Jean Alves cared for the earthly body of a man whose works he considered to be godly. Father Gottin, better known as Padre Pio, was an Italian-born Franciscan priest who spent over 30 years ministering in Cape Verde before coming to the U.S. as a missionary for the Archdiocese of Boston's Cape Verdean communities. (He is not to be confused with St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, the 19th-century Italian Franciscan priest and mystic.) He quickly became a beloved spiritual leader for Cape Verdeans in Roxbury, Brockton, New Bedford, and beyond.
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Ordination Class of 2024: Deacon Gabriel Hanley
This is the third article in a series profiling the 11 men who will be ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Boston at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on May 25, 2024. CHESTNUT HILL -- Deacon Gabriel Hanley doesn't mind the idea of being a skateboarding priest.
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From Cardinal Seán's blog
Last Saturday, while I was still in Washington, I celebrated a 50th anniversary Mass and renewal of vows for Pablo and Amelia Ortiz, a couple whom I married 50 years ago at St. Matthew's Cathedral. Their children, grandchildren, and many of their friends were there to share the occasion with them.
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Irish voters resoundingly reject proposals to redefine family, undermine motherhood
DUBLIN (OSV News) -- The Irish prime minister, known as the Taoiseach, has conceded that his government was defeated comprehensively when voters rejected amendments to the constitution that the countrys bishops warned would have weakened supports for marriage and undermined motherhood.
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