Growing up as a child of the late 70s and early 80s, my early education and development included a steady diet of ...

As Father Mateus Martin lay prostrate on the floor before the altar of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross with his fellow ...

The first Church council, the Council of Jerusalem we hear about in today's First Reading, decided the shape of the Church as we know it. Some Jewish Christians had wanted Gentile converts to b ...

For communities in the Northeast, and particularly in seaside and lakeside vacation communities, Memorial Day weekend is an exciting time to celebrate the coming summer. People set out on the water, e ...

By the time our children were born, playing outdoors had already fallen out of fashion. Concerns about safety ruled the day. And the things most kids got excited about were indoors and increasingly li ...

As the Catholic Church welcomed its 267th pope, Leo XIV -- elected May 8 -- attention quickly turned to the first moments of his pontificate. The first weeks of a papacy often give ...

The Archdiocese of Boston announced May 17 that Msgr. Francis Strahan, former pastor of St. Bridget Parish in Framingham, has been cleared of civil and canonical allegations of sexual abu ...

Jesus peeked out from behind the closed curtains to see the hundreds of chattering students of St. Raphael School in Medford who had filled the parish hall to watch his passion. Jesus was ...

Vicar General Bishop Mark W. O'Connell did something that he hasn't done in 25 years: mow a lawn with a push mower.

She's played the organ for U.S. presidents, Supreme Court justices and military veterans being interred at Arlington National Cemetery. She's performed at the Kennedy Cen ...

Karen Drake enrolled in St. John's Seminary's Theological Institute because she wanted to "search for truth." "Search for a deeper understanding of God and to build up my faith and to be able to ...

The Cathedral of the Holy Cross was near capacity when Archbishop Richard G. Henning celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving for the election of Pope Leo XIV on May 14. The Mass and its attendees ...