Pope Leo XIV, who was elected to the role of leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday, received an honorary degree from Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, in 2005.

The Andover Choral Society will fill the room with love when it hits the stage for its spring concert next week. The nonprofit organization will hold its “Songs of Love” concert at 3 p.m. May 4 at the ...

Despite the order’s 800-year history – and its Italian origins – Pope Leo XIV is the first Augustinian to be named a pope.

Pope Leo XIV, the first Augustinian to lead the Catholic Church, received an honorary degree from Merrimack College in North ...

Villanova University is an Augustinian institution. The Augustinians also sponsor Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, along with several high schools and many Catholic parishes.

Houses of worship come and go, but Jewish communities like the one in my hometown don’t die. Instead, remaining Jews find new ...

This is the same press that was in the lobby of our previous building in North Andover, Massachusetts. Most recently it has resided at Old North Church in Boston where it was seen by thousands of ...

The first American pope has ties to Massachusetts. Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago who graduated from Villanova University, received an honorary degree from ...

In Concord and Andover, estates were assessed at double and triple the amount. Schools: In 1647, Massachusetts General ... Suburb" by Richard Kollen. Churches: There was one parsonage.

Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in December 1936, he was elected in 2013 as the 266th head of the Roman Catholic Church. He became the first Latin-American pope, the first ...

of Massachusetts, according to Attorney General Dave Sunday. Sarmiento had been staying with Johnson at the Red Carpet Inn on North Church Street in Hazle Township in June 2021 when, investigators say ...

NORTH ANDOVER – The breaking ball smacked Michael Phelps right between the shoulder blades, and the grin on Jake Jackson’s face grew a tad sinister. “As soon as I saw (Phelps) get hit by the ...