The Diocese of Fall River has announced parish closures and mergers in New Bedford and Westport due to low attendance. Here's what we know.

FALL RIVER, Mass. (WJAR) — The Diocese of Fall River announced that five parishes will be closing as part of changes coming ...

which since August has been investigating the Roman Catholic Church after a Pennsylvania grand jury report identified at least seven priests with a connection to Illinois. Springfield Diocese ...

Decision season starts Thursday for the Supreme Court, kicking off a race against the clock to release this term’s opinions ...

It’s amazing,” Father Flynn said of the interest in this pilgrimage church. “People are coming during the day, wanting to get ...

The Rev. Francis Edward Connors died peacefully early Wednesday morning, May 7, 2025 at Elderwood of Burlington; he was 85 years old.

Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Chicago native Robert Francis Prevost ministered to alcoholics and addicts at the former St. Victor Church in Calumet City, Illinois. Leo did an internship at St.

As worshippers in Illinois praise God and take pride in the new Catholic pope’s local connections, a Chicago-based bishop is reminding the faithful that the Holy ...

Elms College religious studies professor Michael McGravey called Pope Leo the XIV's election an "unprecedented" moment in the ...

Bishop William Byrne of the Diocese of Springfield is expected to deliver remarks on Thursday’s election of Pope Leo XIV.

the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, just an hour after Pope Leo appeared before the world for the first time on the Loggia of Blessings in Rome. “I checked out and ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the ...