JOHNSTON — Rev. Przemyslaw “Shemek” Lepak, pastor of St. Christopher and St. Theresa parishes in Tiverton wasn’t the only Rhode Island resident taking an oath of citizenship on the morning of Thursday ...

The annual observance of Catholic Schools Week, January 29 to February 5, provides our diocesan Church with a special opportunity to emphasize the important mission of Catholic schools, to renew our ...

PROVIDENCE – Father John Soares, a familiar and popular figure on the Unversity of Rhode Island campus in Kingston for nearly 12 years, has been appointed pastor of St. Thomas Church on Fruit Hill in ...

CRANSTON— Father Joseph Iannuzzi may be considered a modern day renaissance man. A skilled violinist, former medical student and wrestler who once trained for the Olympic team, he performs more than ...

CRANSTON - Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, 40 days of prayer, fasting and almsgiving which are to serve as preparation for Christ's Resurrection on Easter Sunday. According to the "Catholic ...

On Good Friday afternoon as I drove to visit a dying friend, I listened to Father Raymond de Souza on the Catholic Channel preach on the Seven Last Words that Jesus spoke from the cross. Father de ...

BRIGHTON, Mass. — Priestly formation means more than simply a degree, a study of theology. Formation means attending to the whole of the man who puts on the Roman collar every day. Approaches to that ...

PROVIDENCE — While the Diocese of Providence experienced a small deficit in its annual Catholic Charity Appeal for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, its audited 2017-2018 annual financial … ...

PROVIDENCE — In many churches around the world, visitors are often shocked to find the corpse of a Catholic saint contained in a glass coffin. Often hundreds of years old, the bodies of these saints ...

The Fathers of the Church described Confession metaphorically as the “second plank after the shipwreck of sin.” To be forgiven in Confession a person must have contrition for his sins. Contrition is ...

I arrived in Rome in mid-August to begin my new assignment as a spiritual director at the Pontifical North American College. On Sunday August 26th I went with the New Men as part of their orientation ...

PROVIDENCE — Father Christopher Murphy was installed as rector of the Seminary of Our Lady of Providence at the Mass of the Holy Spirit on September 4, officially marking the start of the school year.