Archdiocesan high school football season wrap-up
As the fall football season comes to an end, The Pilot extends congratulations to Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood winning the Division 1 Superbowl...
Read MoreAs the fall football season comes to an end, The Pilot extends congratulations to Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood winning the Division 1 Superbowl...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- Sometime before the COVID-19 pandemic, Susan Rosso wanted to join the Knights of Columbus. She noticed Grand Knight Michael Moody of Catholic...
Read MoreBROOKLINE -- It was the first time in Chuck's life that anybody celebrated his birthday. Chuck, a homeless man living in the Denver area, had lived...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- Catholic Charities Boston has opened a new emergency shelter for homeless and migrant families in the Boston area, with the help of a $5 million...
Read MoreROSLINDALE -- At first, geothermal irrigation systems and spaceflight entertainment for astronauts seem to be topics too heavy for middle schoolers. The...
Read MoreI hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! As every year, I spent Thanksgiving with my family in Florida. It's the one time of year we all...
Read MoreBOSTON -- Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley presented 150 Cheverus Award Medals to laity, deacons, and religious for service to the church in Boston during...
Read MoreBOSTON -- Young students across the Boston Archdiocese were encouraged to show off their artistic talent and take part in the Catholic School's Foundation's...
Read MoreDANVERS -- "You've started something on death row." Xaverian Brother Jim Connolly heard those words from the warden of the maximum-security South...
Read MoreWAYLAND -- Before he became pastor of Good Shepherd Parish in Wayland, Father David O'Leary was a chaplain and professor of comparative religion at...
Read MoreAs I do every year on Thanksgiving week, I am posting my blog a couple of days early so I can spend time with my family for the holiday. Following the...
Read MoreBOSTON -- When he was a young priest, Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley celebrated the funeral Mass of a woman with Down syndrome. After the funeral,...
Read MoreDORCHESTER -- Beth Chambers, vice president of basic needs at Catholic Charities Boston, considers it a Thanksgiving miracle. For 24 years, Catholic Charities...
Read MoreWALTHAM -- On Nov. 18, the 15 members of the St. Jude Parish G.K. Chesterton Society held their monthly meeting, gathered at a long wooden table in Jake...
Read MoreDORCHESTER -- It may come as a surprise, but New England Patriots cornerback Jonathan Jones is as comfortable handling a sheep brain as he is handling...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- In January 2010, 19-year-old Worcester native Britney Gengel went on a humanitarian trip with her college to help orphanages in Haiti. While...
Read MoreIn 1847, Father John McElroy, a Jesuit priest, on his way to serve as chaplain for soldiers during the Mexican-American War, stopped in Cincinnati to rest....
Read MoreLast Thursday morning, I attended the wake of Margaret Rora, the mother of Father Michael Rora. I was pleased to be able to be there and offer some prayers...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley will present Cheverus Award Medals to 150 laypersons, deacons, and religious during a 3 p.m. prayer service...
Read MoreCOLUMBIA POINT -- According to Danielle M. Brown, Esq., the associate director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism,...
Read MoreCAMBRIDGE -- "It's a coin toss he sees dawn." "Time to get a priest?" "That would be prudent." Bill Brennan could not believe that his own son had...
Read MoreCAMBRIDGE -- Dany Intsinci, a seventh grader at St. Paul's Choir School in Cambridge, says that Gabriel Faure's 1893 Requiem is a much more challenging...
Read MoreWAKEFIELD -- For the past eight weeks, Father Carlos Martins has traveled 15,000 miles across the U.S. with an armored van and the arm bones of St. Jude...
Read MoreBefore I move on to the events of my week, there are a couple of final items from my time in Rome that I'd like to share with you. On Oct. 29, I visited...
Read MoreBOSTON -- Emily DaSilva's father liked what he saw. Mr. DaSilva, a janitor at St. Catherine of Siena School in Norwood, was so impressed by the school...
Read MoreFollowing are the prepared remarks delivered by alumni of Trinity Catholic Academy and Pope St. John Paul II Catholic Academy, who spoke about the impact...
Read MoreMATTAPAN -- Bill Grogan, president of the Archdiocese of Boston's Planning Office for Urban Affairs, can think of many numbers that highlight the seriousness...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- When celebrating a Jubilee Mass for the Archdiocese of Boston's religious sisters on Nov. 4, Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley had to...
Read MoreAs many may know, this past weekend, we wrapped up our work for this session of the Synod on Synodality, and there are a couple of final events in Rome...
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