This year’s annual Adopt-A-Student Recognition Dinner has been canceled as a precaution against the COVID-19 coronavirus. It was to be held April 2.

Msgr. Michael G. Foley’s surveyed St. Luke the Evangelist Church filled to capacity with people of all ages and said, “All I can say is wow!"

Pledges to Partners in Charity have exceeded $1 million the week after Partners launched it general appeal on Ash Wednesday.

At St. Paul Cathedral Sunday afternoon, 87 catechumens celebrated the Rite of Election and 72 candidates celebrated the Rite of Recognition and Call to Continuing Conversion.

Worcester is among the dioceses nationwide that are taking precautions to guard against the spread of the coronavirus.

Bishop Robert McManus, Bishop of Worcester, wrote to students and families of Holy Name and St. Peter-Marian Jr.-Sr. Central Catholic High Schools on Thursday announcing that the school will be known as St. Paul Diocesan Jr-Sr High School and that it will be located at the current Holy Name campus on Granite Street.

WORCESTER – Deacon John F. LeDoux, 65, died Sunday. Funeral: 11 a.m., Friday, St. Paul Cathedral. Calling hours: Thursday, 5-7 p.m., at St. Paul's.

Assumption College has suspended operations at its campus in Rome, Italy, for the remainder of the semester.