VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When presented with an accusation that a priest has sexually abused a child, "whether it's criminal or malicious complicity and a code of silence or whether it is denial" on a very human level, such reactions are no longer tolerable, said the Vatican's top investigator of abuse cases.

A Hub native who was raised in St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Allston, Father Paul F. Bailey died in his home in Harwich on Feb. 6, 2019. He was the son of the late Thomas and Gertrude (O'Brien) Bailey. He was born on Jan. 17, 1932, and was educated at St. Anthony Grammar School and Boston College High School, prior to his entering the archdiocesan seminaries at Jamaica Plain (Cardinal O'Connell) and Brighton (St. John).

CARVER -- Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley visited Our Lady of Lourdes Church on Feb. 3 to celebrate Mass and bless the newly renovated building. Our Lady of Lourdes is part of a collaborative with St. Peter Parish and St. Kateri Tekakwitha Parish in Plymouth. When Father Joseph Raeke was assigned to the collaborative in June 2018, it did not take long for him to decide they needed to renovate the worship space, which was located in a former drugstore.