WARWICK — The Religious of Jesus and Mary celebrated an important milestone on Sunday, Feb. 25, marking the 200th anniversary of the founding of their order by St. Claudine Thévenet with a special ...

PROVIDENCE – Father John Soares, a familiar and popular figure on the Unversity of Rhode Island campus in Kingston for nearly 12 years, has been appointed pastor of St. Thomas Church on Fruit Hill in ...

JOHNSTON — The diocesan Office for Religious honored religious jubilarians celebrating anniversaries of service ranging from 25-70 years during noon Mass at St. Rocco Church, Johnston, on Sunday, May ...

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PROVIDENCE — At the 1906 dedication of Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Providence Bishop Matthew Harkins refused to celebrate Mass because of tensions with the church's first pastor, Father Antonio M.

On Good Friday afternoon as I drove to visit a dying friend, I listened to Father Raymond de Souza on the Catholic Channel preach on the Seven Last Words that Jesus spoke from the cross. Father de ...

CATHOLIC VALUES: At center, from left, Daughters of Our Lady of the Garden Sisters Daisy Kollamparampil, Mary Antoinette Cappelli and Donna Beauregard join Principal Lorraine Moschella in gathering ...

PROVIDENCE — For the past 52 years, the Franciscan Friars have enjoyed a strong presence in the city’s downtown, where they have helped meet the spiritual and temporal needs of faith-filled people ...

VATICAN CITY -- Here is the English translation of Pope Francis I's remarks delivered from the balcony after his election as pope. Brothers and sisters, good evening. You know that the task of the ...

PROVIDENCE — In many churches around the world, visitors are often shocked to find the corpse of a Catholic saint contained in a glass coffin. Often hundreds of years old, the bodies of these saints ...

PROVIDENCE—The world-famous International Pilgrim Virgin statue of Our Lady of Fatima is en route to the Ocean State. On March 5, the statue will arrive at St. Mark Church in Jamestown, bringing along ...

WARWICK — Overbrook Academy, an elite international Catholic boarding school for girls in grades six through nine situated on the diocese-owned Aldrich Mansion property at Warwick Neck for more than ...