Cardinal O'Malley issues statement on Trump's assassination attempt
Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley relesed the following statement July 13 after news of an assassination attempt on former President and presidential candidate...
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Cardinal blesses extensive renovations at Jamaica Plain church
JAMAICA PLAIN -- Father Andrea Povero, parochial vicar of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Jamaica Plain, didn't know what to do with his pews. Since...
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Father Daniel Mahoney remembered as 'a firefighter's firefighter'
CHARLESTOWN -- Everyone knew him as Danny. Or Danno. Or Father Dan. Or, simply, Dan. Father Dan Mahoney, the longtime Boston Fire Department chaplain...
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Survivor Advisory Council offers support, shares lessons with archdiocese
BRAINTREE -- The June 18 meeting of the Boston Survivor Advisory Council, a support group for survivors of clergy sexual abuse that works alongside the...
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Pilot honored with four Catholic Media Awards
BRAINTREE -- The Pilot earned four Catholic Media Awards at this year's Catholic Media Conference, held from June 18 to 21 in Atlanta, Georgia. The...
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Order of Malta's ties to Revolution explored at feast day gathering
BOSTON -- In 1778, at the height of the American Revolution, Mercy Otis Warren had a warning for Abigail Adams. That year, after France allied with the...
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From Cardinal Seán's blog
I want to begin this week by saying how saddened we were by the passing of Father Dan Mahoney. Father Mahoney was beloved by his parishioners and the...
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Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur 175th anniversary: Emmanuel College -- Mission made manifest
Emmanuel College is a Catholic, co-educational, residential institution with a beautiful 17-acre campus in the heart of Boston's educational, scientific,...
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Four Catholic high schools win spring sports championships
As the school year and the spring sports season comes to an end, The Pilot extends congratulations to the following schools for winning state title championships. Boston...
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Regina Cleri celebrates 60 years of caring for archdiocese's priests
BOSTON -- To Father Bryan Parrish, former vicar for clergy of the Archdiocese of Boston, Regina Cleri is holy ground. Established in 1964 by Cardinal Richard...
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DesRoses recognized with Blind Employee of the Year Award
BRAINTREE -- Lorna DesRoses, the Archdiocese of Boston's Evangelization Consultant for Ethnic Communities, jokes that she could write a book about...
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Planning Office breaks ground on Mattapan senior housing project
MATTAPAN -- Sheila Dillon, chief of housing for the City of Boston, is used to receiving "painful calls" from some of the 82,000 older adults living in...
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From Cardinal Seán's blog
Last Saturday, I had the ordination of one of the friars of my province, Father Michael Herlihey. This is one of four Capuchin ordinations I have this...
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Sisters of St. Joseph join national anti-gun violence observance
A banner on the fence outside the Sisters of St. Joseph Motherhouse in Brighton read, "Gun violence is the number one killer of children and teens in America."...
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Cheverus profiles: Joseph Gray of St. Joseph Parish in Malden
BRAINTREE -- When an odd job has to be taken care of at St. Joseph Parish in Malden, volunteer Joseph Gray always hops to it -- sometimes literally. For...
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