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Bishop Richard G. Henning, parishioners, religious, priests and deacons of the Diocese of Providence join in celebrating the end of a year of 70th anniversary celebrations marking the founding of Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Cumberland.

Our Lady of Fatima Parish closes out 70th anniversary celebration of its founding

CUMBERLAND — Our Lady of Fatima Parish has closed its year of events celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of their parish. The February 25 Mass was celebrated by Bishop Richard G. …
This map shows the four routes of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage to the National Eucharistic Congress in 2024. Pilgrims traveling in

24 ‘Perpetual Pilgrims’ Eager To Lead ‘Biggest Eucharistic Procession In World History’

    (OSV News) — A profound experience with the Eucharist during Mass in his freshman year at Texas A&M University compelled Charlie McCullough to make Jesus the center …
Jack Brantolino poses with Bishop Thomas J. Tobin and Father C. Roger Gagne, pastor, after receiving the sacrament of confirmation on May 11, 2019, at St. Peter Parish in Warwick. Jack, who had severe autism and passed away from a seizure last year, prepared for this day through the Autism and the Sacraments program at St. Peter Parish.

Students, parents find connections through St. Peter autism education program

WARWICK — How does one teach the truths of the Faith to a child who may not be able to speak, much less comprehend the inscrutable mysteries of the Supreme Being – as if any one person …

Assignments 03.14.24

  PASTORS Reverend Jean Joseph Brice, from Parochial Vicar, St. Michael Parish, Providence, and Parochial Vicar, St. Patrick Parish, Providence, to Pastor, St. Patrick Parish, …

Assisted suicide bill receives hearing by Senate Judiciary Committee

PROVIDENCE — The Senate Judiciary Committee has heard testimony relating to the Lila Manfield Sapinsley Compassionate Care Act, a bill that would legalize physician-assisted suicide in the …
OPINION

Listen, for heaven’s sake!

Each year in Lent we read an account of the Transfiguration of the Lord, a story found in all three of the synoptic Gospels. Each Gospel telling shares the common experience of the three disciples, …
Blessed Stanley Rother, a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City who was murdered in 1981 in the Guatemalan village where he ministered to the poor, is pictured in an undated photo.

Two who didn’t run

His neighbors in 1940s Oklahoma would have found it hard to imagine the boy they knew as Stanley Francis Rother as a future martyr, and the first beatified American parish priest. Young Stan did …

Encountering Jesus deeply in our hearts and souls

Jesus Christ was applauded by throngs in life and jeered by crowds at death. And the crowds were extensive. “Large crowds followed Him from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and …

Special Event Listings for 03.14.24

Family-friendly Eucharistic Adoration WARREN — Saint Alexander Church, 221 Main St., will host a family-friendly period of Eucharistic Adoration on Tuesdays in Lent from 6-7 p.m., helping …

AROUND THE DIOCESE

Special Event Listings for 03.14.24

Family-friendly Eucharistic Adoration WARREN — Saint Alexander Church, 221 Main St., will host a family-friendly period of Eucharistic Adoration on Tuesdays in Lent from 6-7 p.m., helping …