SPRINGFIELD – Bishop William D. Byrne announced a new Strategic Realignment Initiative to examine how to best meet the needs and carry out the mission of the church in western Massachusetts given the ...

Father Barrent Pease will become administrator of St. John Paul II Parish, Adams, and St. Mary of the Assumption Parish, Cheshire. Father Paul Norman will become administrator of St. Mary and All ...

SPRINGFIELD – Springfield Bishop William D. Byrne has issued a statement following the Springfield Diocese’s settlement of a legal case alleging abuse by the late Bishop Christopher J. Weldon dating ...

SPRINGFIELD – Father Thomas Lisowski, a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, has had his full priestly faculties restored, including the pastorate of St. Patrick Parish, Northfield, by ...

SPRINGFIELD – On Wednesday, Sept. 30, the parish community of St. Michael’s Cathedral celebrated the 160 th anniversary of its consecration with a Solemnity Mass led by Bishop William D. Byrne, Father ...

WORCESTER – Father Ralph Anthony DiOrio Jr., 94, referred to as the “healing priest,” the founder and director of the Apostolate of Divine Mercy and Healing, passed away on Monday, Jan 20 at Life Care ...

(OSV News) — Just below an outdoor Marian shrine in western Massachusetts, a trail of baby footprints, made of tile, winds across a flagstone entrance past two 13-foot bronze angel statues, heads ...

PARIS (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV urged 80,000 young people gathered at the Stade de France Sept. 25 to pursue holiness, peace and a “living relationship with Jesus” during an evening prayer vigil that ...

STOCKBRIDGE – Marian Father Matthew Tomeny has been named the new rector of the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy in Stockbridge. He succeeds Marian Father Anthony Gramlich, who now serves as vice ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — Father Rene L. Parent, M.S., 76, a Missionary of Our Lady of La Salette, died on June 21, 2026, at La Salette House in Hartford. He was born on July 2, 1949, in Holyoke. His parents ...

SPRINGFIELD — Before it became a groundbreaking Broadway musical in October 1971, “Jesus Christ Superstar” was a 1970 rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Weber and lyrics by Tim Rice, first released ...

WILBRAHAM- Rick Thorpe was on the 89 th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Calling his wife, Linda Perry Thorpe, he told her he was okay and that people were being ...