SPRINGFIELD- The Diocese of Springfield is announcing the suspension of Stigmatine Father Paolo Bagattini, who was assigned to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish in Springfield after receiving a report of ...

SPRINGFIELD – Bishop William D. Byrne is supporting a new effort which seeks to suspend and ultimately repeal the abortion expansion law passed in the final hours of the legislative session and signed ...

(OSV News) — Addressing a delegation from the Special Olympics, Pope Leo XIV recalled his own great fondness of sports and invited them to live holy lives following the example of St. Pier Giorgio ...

PARIS (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV urged 80,000 young people gathered at the Stade de France Sept. 25 to pursue holiness, peace and a “living relationship with Jesus” during an evening prayer vigil that ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD – On the opening weekend of the Big E in West Springfield, Bishop William D. Byrne celebrated a 10 a.m. Mass inside the circus tent Sunday, Sept. 20 for workers and the fair community ...

ARLINGTON, Va. (OSV News) — It’s been 18 years since Thomas Vander Woude gave his life to save his son Joseph from drowning in a septic tank. Now, the Arlington Diocese is investigating his cause for ...

SPRINGFIELD – Throughout the spring and summer months, a number of diocesan and religious order priests in the Springfield Diocese were reassigned. Others left for medical leaves and some retired.

WILBRAHAM- Rick Thorpe was on the 89 th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Calling his wife, Linda Perry Thorpe, he told her he was okay and that people were being ...

CHICOPEE – A bag piper led the procession at Ste. Rose de Lima Parish for the annual 9/11 Memorial Mass Friday, Sept. 11. Ste. Rose de Lima Parish is carrying on an tradition in the Ludlow and ...

SPRINGFIELD — Springfield Bishop William D. Byrne celebrated the annual All Schools Mass, Thursday, Sept. 17 at St. Michael’s Cathedral to kick off the new academic year. The St. Michael’s Academy ...

ST. LOUIS (OSV News) — Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen — the 20th-century American theologian, evangelizer, Catholic communications pioneer, teacher and preacher — is now Blessed Fulton Sheen. Cardinal ...

SPRINGFIELD — Maureen M. (Cahill) Digan, the wife of Deacon Bob Digan of Lee, Massachusetts, passed away, Monday, June 1. She was 80 years old. Born on June 7, 1945, in Chestnut Hill, Mass., her life ...