Massachusetts Archives

Report: Abuse allegations against deceased Catholic bishop ‘credible’

Jun 25, 2020

An independent investigation found that allegations of child sexual abuse by a former Catholic bishop in Massachusetts were “unequivocally credible,” according to an executive summary of the report released Wednesday.

By Associated Press

Catholic chaplain at MIT resigns after sending email doubting Floyd-racism link

Jun 17, 2020

A Catholic chaplain at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has resigned at the request of the archdiocese after sending an email suggesting that the killing of George Floyd was not an act of racism and saying that Floyd “had not lived a virtuous life.”

By Associated Press

Newly named archbishop shares mom’s advice to him: ‘Don’t get a big head’

Jun 14, 2020

Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski traveled from Springfield to the St. Louis Archdiocese as its newly named archbishop with this advice from his mother, Jean: “Don’t get a big head.”

By Rebecca Drake

World’s oldest Assumptionist priest dies at 104 in Diocese of Worcester

May 16, 2020

Father Oliver Blanchette, the oldest Assumptionist in the world and beloved by many in the Worcester Diocese, died May 11 at Notre Dame Long Term Care Center in Worcester after a period of declining health. He was 104.

By Catholic News Service

Diocese designates, trains younger priests as special ministers to sick

Apr 13, 2020

For all priests in the Diocese of Worcester, ministry to the sick and dying in these days of the coronavirus pandemic is changed. Nineteen priests in the diocese have been trained to be designated ministers to the sick

By Tanya Connor