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The conference celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System (CrMS), which has “empowered women to understand and monitor their fertility and reproductive health and enabled couples to achieve or avoid pregnancy through joint educated decisions,” according to organizer Marise Frangie.

“It was a special graduating class,” commented Sheila Marshall, a reunion planning committee member. They did not know they would be the school’s last class until their senior year, she said.

On Tuesday, Oct. 27, Bishop McManus presented grants totaling $42,500 for 28 programs sponsored by various parishes and agencies around the diocese. Last year grants totaled $45,000.

WORCESTER – The former St. Stephen Parish rectory will be torn down soon and replaced by a gravel lot that can be used for limited parking.

WORCESTER – Father C. Michael Broderick appreciates the support that the Celebrate Priesthood! Taste of the Diocese Gala has provided for retired and senior priests. As a senior priest, he is one of those who benefits from the gala.

AUBURN – Bishop McManus blessed artwork in the renovated sanctuary of North American Martyrs Parish on its patronal feast day Monday.

If he hadn’t been preparing for priesthood, he wouldn’t have met the woman he married – thanks in part to a matchmaking priest. He later became a clergyman – thanks in part to his wife.

AUBURN – Rev. Thaddeus X. Stachura, 90, of Auburn and a priest for the Diocese of Worcester passed away peacefully on Friday, Oct. 16.

Father John Henault, a Missionary Oblate of Mary Immaculate, spoke with The Catholic Free Press by phone from Haiti in anticipation of World Mission Sunday this weekend.

WORCESTER – It’s apple picking season. So it’s nearly time for Jackie St. Martin and her sisters to start making applesauce. They donate their earnings to St. Mary Health Care Center. The Catholic health ministry is a skilled nursing and long-term care facility at 39 Queen St.

St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Westborough is holding Alpha programs for the fourth year, and this fall the parish is branching out by offering them at two restaurants in the town as well as the parish hall.

Mrs. Burns was led to found The Feminine Project to “bring together Catholic women to cultivate our minds and build community in order to restore authentic femininity, the home and heart of society.”

ROME (OSV News) -- Church and world leaders offered prayers and wishes for a speedy recovery to Pope Leo XIV following the Vatican's announcement that he was diagnosed with lung cancer after undergoing surgery to remove part of his right lung.

WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump on Oct. 15 called off Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's plans to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad in December.

Massachusetts Catholic bishops and priests are supporting an effort to suspend, and ultimately repeal, the state’s new law that allows abortions up until birth.

The Worcester diocese can now proceed with a canonical trial to have Father Alan J. Martineau, ordained a priest in 2018, permanently removed from the clerical state following “a determination of sexual abuse,” Raymond L. Delisle, chancellor and director of communications ministry, said in a statement Wednesday. The Vatican directs that the criminal trial be concluded first, he explained.

Mary Bravos received plenty of bravos on Friday, Sept. 25. In the gym at St. John, Guardian of Our Lady Parish, in Clinton, parishioners, friends and family helped Mrs. Bravos celebrate her 105th birthday.