Last year a fellow St. Charles parishioner asked me to consider attending the men’s weekend retreat, held annually in March ...

After decades of conservative leadership, Francis tried to reset the course of the Roman Catholic Church, emphasizing ...

A Shepherd for the Poor and Humble Beginnings Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936 to Italian-immigrant parents in Argentina, Pope Francis’s life has been marked by simplicity and solidarity with the ...

In the darkness, clustered around the river, hundreds of Frederictonians watched in eerie silence the strange spectacle of ...

In the Book of Maccabees found in the Catholic ... [Luke 3:16] According to the Spanish mystic, St. John of the Cross, the fire of Purgatory is God's Love purifying our soul in preparation for ...

St. Bernard and St. John of the Cross are among the Church's foremost interpreters of this book. Other passages in the Old and New Testaments compare God's relationship with his people to a ...

The Essex Land Trust maintains several preserves where visitors can experience Connecticut’s diverse ecosystems on ...

Essex Village, nestled against the Connecticut River, serves as the natural starting point for most visitors. Main Street ...

Extreme adventurer Mark Synnott is out with his third book, chronicling his attempt to sail through the Northwest Passage in ...

The Associated Clergy of Cape Ann hosted an ecumenical Good Friday Stations of the Cross walk along Stacy Boulevard on Friday ...