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Sister Jeanne spent 40 years of her religious life teaching in grades one through four in Barton, Vermont; Nasonville, Rhode Island; Greenville, New Hampshire; and Lowell, Dracut, Northbridge, and Millbury. In 1967, she went to Philadelphia to become a certified Montessori Teacher. She then opened a Montessori School in Petersham, and another school in Millbury in 1971. Twenty years of dedicated service evolved.

VATICAN CITY (OSV News) – Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be beatified on Sept. 24 in St. Louis, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints announced March 25.

The Mother Teresa Pro-Life Award, the Ruth Pakaluk Pro-Life Youth Award, and the Gospel of Life Award, given annually to individuals who have shown heroic witness to the intrinsic value of each human life, were presented at this Mass.

WORCESTER – The Blessed Mother statue was broken, but men lined up to touch her, kneel before her or have their photo taken with her. They were attending the 25th annual Worcester Diocesan Catholic Men’s Conference Saturday at the DCU Convention Center.

More than 250 Catholics involved in Hispanic ministry in New England discussed ways to improve evangelization, during a retreat March 12 at St. Paul Cathedral

Father John Edward Horgan, a retired priest of the Diocese of Worcester, passed away Tuesday, March 10.

The title of his presentation is “Does God Want Everyone to be Catholic?”

Observing court hearings of migrants, praying for them at the U.S.-Mexico border and at a desert death site, and learning from their supporters’ treatment of adversaries were ways a local deacon and his wife spent a sabbatical – to prepare for future ministry.