As of July 9, the annual campaign had received 9,435 gifts worth $3,819,619, about 76 percent of the goal. As of the same date last year, Partners in Charity had received 10,205 gifts worth $4,005,110 ...

Bishop McManus blessed a new columbarium at St. Mary of the Hills Parish in West Boylston, at an outdoor Mass on June 21. The granite wall with 40 niches for cremated remains is across the driveway ...

St. Bernard’s High School in Fitchburg just finished a historic $10.3 million endowment campaign, Kelly Jennison, director of external relations, told The Catholic Free Press Monday. Last fall an ...

Brother Paul J. Feeney, C.F.X., 92, a devoted member of the Congregation of the Brothers of St. Francis Xavier for 75 years, died peacefully on June 24.

St. Mary’s was not the first parish established in the Brookfields, but its church building is the oldest. A look back is timely, since on Tuesday this week the Brookfields’ parishes were merged to ...

EAST BROOKFIELD – At the last Mass at St. John the Baptist Parish, parishioners expressed sadness about losing their church and priests, and spoke of plans to keep the faith – elsewhere.