Celebration marks 15th year of supporting, honoring priests
BOSTON -- Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley likes to say that being Catholic in Boston is a contact sport. When he became Archbishop of Boston in 2003,...
Read MoreBOSTON -- Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley likes to say that being Catholic in Boston is a contact sport. When he became Archbishop of Boston in 2003,...
Read MoreThe 13 bedrooms of the O'Connell House are as tidy as can be. The sheets on the beds are smooth and clean. The desks are uncluttered. The teddy bears...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- Bill Wilson, known to millions as the "Bill W." who co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous, was the poster child of sobriety. But as he sat in AA's...
Read MoreCAMBRIDGE -- When Bishop Robert Barron first landed in France to begin studying theology at the University of Paris, not even a serious case of jet lag...
Read MoreLast week, we were very happy to have some guests at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. Cardinal Mario Zenari, the Papal Nuncio to Syria, was visiting Boston...
Read MoreBOSTON -- When he was young, Deacon Rafael Bautista lived a life of self-described "wildness" in his native Dominican Republic. But his youthful recklessness...
Read MoreSOUTH BOSTON -- Shortly after Dorchester native and Marine Cpl. Paul Garrity landed in Da Nang in 1969 at the age of 20, his gunnery sergeant asked their...
Read MoreAs I do each year around Labor Day, I visited our three archdiocesan seminaries for a Mass of the Holy Spirit to open the academic year. The first was...
Read MoreMARLBOROUGH -- A talented artist and drummer. A "funny, caring, and thoughtful" son and brother. A "light" in the lives of her family. These are only...
Read MoreLAWRENCE -- Nine-year-old Hunter MacQuarrie is used to being in front of crowds when he plays his guitar. Parading in front of hundreds of faithful while...
Read MoreWALPOLE -- At Blessed Sacrament School in Walpole, the new school year opened with prayer, a reading from the Gospel of Matthew... and jokes. "Where do...
Read MoreSaturday, I was visited by Bishop Joe Bonello, OFM, of the Diocese of Juticalpa in Honduras. This is the diocese where Bishop Maurice Muldoon had been...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- Alma Chisholm didn't know her house was being auctioned off until a buyer came to her door. "Somebody rang my doorbell and said, 'Hey,...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- Lisa Field says that she "grew up on the line." Her grandfather was a steelworker. Her mother, an Irish immigrant, worked for the U.S. Postal...
Read MoreLast Thursday, Craig and Nancy Gibson held a lovely gathering at their beautiful home in Woods Hole in honor of the 20th anniversary of my appointment...
Read MoreCardinal Seán P. O'Malley announced Aug. 22 that Superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of Boston Thomas W. Carroll has requested...
Read MoreBOSTON -- "Recognizing the immediate and growing need for assistance" for Hawaii's wildfires victims, Boston Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley has...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- On behalf of the bishops of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Catholic Conference (MCC) submitted a letter to the state Department of Elementary...
Read MoreI want to begin this week by noting how painfully aware we are of the suffering of the people of Maui in the wake of the recent wildfires. The devastation...
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