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Archdiocese to open Jubilee Year with Dec. 29 cathedral Mass
BRAINTREE -- On the Sunday after Christmas, the Archdiocese of Boston will join the Holy Father and the rest of the Catholic Church in celebrating a Jubilee Year, titled "Pilgrims of Hope," that will run through 2025.
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Women Affirming Life sees record turnout at annual gathering
BRAINTREE -- Almost 180 people attended Women Affirming Life's Mass and Brunch at the Archdiocese of Boston Pastoral Center in Braintree on Dec. 7, making it the most successful in the organization's history. The annual event celebrates the work of the pro-life group, which was founded in 1990 by a group of Catholic women professionals and merged with the archdiocesan Pro-Life Office this year.
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Cheverus profiles: Maureen McRae of St. Theresa Parish, North Reading
NORTH READING -- Maureen McRae arrived at St. Theresa Parish in North Reading at 8:40 a.m. on the foggy morning of Dec. 10, her well-loved Roman Missal clutched close to her chest. As she does every Tuesday morning, McRae attended the 9 a.m. Mass, for which she serves as an extraordinary minister of Communion. She then went to the chapel with parochial vicar Father Augustin Anda for exposition and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, which lasts from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. weekly. McRae is always there for adoration from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. She also designed and sewed the red velvet fabric that surrounds the monstrance.
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Ecumenical group connects through historic hymns at Ipswich parish
IPSWICH -- A rustic sound, simple and powerful in its joy and earnestness, chimed through the Our Lady of Hope parish hall in Ipswich on the icy afternoon of Dec. 15. Five voices sat together in a square and harmonized to produce strains, at once robust and ethereal. Tapping their feet to keep rhythm and slicing their arms through the air to conduct themselves, they wove through a medley of Christmas hymns, including "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" and "Adeste Fidelis."
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'La Morenita' musical celebrates Our Lady of Guadalupe in Lawrence
LAWRENCE -- An armored conquistador works on a laptop in the former St. Mary of the Assumption School gymnasium in Lawrence, surrounded by the myriad knobs and switches of lighting consoles and digital sound mixers. A bishop in ballet slippers stands beside the conquistador, microphone in hand, waiting for his next solo. Dancers in billowing white gowns twirl on the stage above them.
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Wrap-up of the archdiocesan Catholic high school football season
Central Catholic, Lawrence, vs. Lawrence High Playing at the venerable Fenway Park on Thanksgiving Eve, the Central Catholic Raiders ended a successful season with a 34-12 win over their city rival, Lawrence High School. Led by John Sexton '97 (second season), Central Catholic ends at 7-4 and leads the rivalry at 9-0-0. Lawrence ends at 3-8.
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Holy Days in 2025
The following are the holy days celebrated and observed with obligation in the Archdiocese of Boston for 2025: -- Solemnity of Mary, the Most Holy Mother of God, Wednesday, Jan. 1. -- Solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Thursday, May 29.
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Ten Commandments tablet surpasses estimates at Sotheby's despite authenticity questions
A contentious Ten Commandments tablet has sold at Sotheby's for $5.04 million -- more than twice its high estimate of $2 million.The auction took place on Wednesday in New York City. Promoted by the auction house as "the earliest surviving inscribed tablet of the Ten Commandments" and purportedly dating to the late Roman-Byzantine era, the marble slab drew intense scrutiny ahead of the sale, with scholars disputing its provenance and authenticity.
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Pope Francis names Father Roger Landry a Monsignor
Father Roger Landry is now Monsignor Roger Landry -- but he says he's not ready to abandon the title "Father" anytime soon. Monsignor Landry, 54, the incoming national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States and a regular contributor to The Pilot and the National Catholic Register, said he got the news this past weekend. He made it public Tuesday morning.
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One year later, Vatican document on same-sex blessings not causing much of a stir
Around this time last year, a Vatican document authorizing priests to provide non-liturgical blessings for same-sex couples led to headlines around the world in the secular and Catholic presses. Some bishops from Africa rejected the pronouncement, some in Europe celebrated it, and bishops in various places issued guidelines explaining it.
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Pope Francis pens essay on humor: 'Irony is a medicine'
Pope Francis on Tuesday penned an essay for the New York Times on the importance of fostering a sense of humor, of quelling narcissism through "appropriate doses of self-irony," and of avoiding "wallowing in melancholy at all costs."
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Spanish Supreme Court rules surrogacy exploits women, harms children's rights
A ruling by the Supreme Court of Spain states that surrogacy exploits the woman who rents her womb and harms the dignity and rights of the children conceived. The Dec. 9 decision by the country's First Chamber of the high court determined that "it is contrary to public order" to recognize a ruling by a foreign court (Bexar County, Texas) that validates a surrogacy contract and attributes the paternity of the children born to the intended [contracting] parents."
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