Dedicated catechetical leaders and volunteer teachers continue the vital work of faith formation with the diocese’s children and young people.

Bishop McManus, Father Diego Buritica and Msgr. Francis Kelly celebrate Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper at St. Paul Cathedral.

We invite you to draw closer to Jesus, using the names or titles for Jesus from the New Testament. Here are five steps for doing so:

What if you can’t use a computer to learn about what your parish is doing during the coronavirus pandemic? There’s always telephone, television and mail.

Bishop McManus has asked that church bells be rung at noon on Easter Sunday, in solidarity with other churches, as a reminder of our faith and a call to prayer.

Bishop McManus called for renewed zeal at the Chrism Mass, which he celebrated Tuesday in an empty cathedral.

In consideration of health care workers in the Diocese of Worcester who are on the front line of this pandemic a dispensation from Fasting and Abstainence is hereby granted to all Catholics in health care professions on Good Friday, April 10, 2020.

Bishop McManus blesses hospitals in Worcester Monday. He visited UMass and St. Vincent.

Catholics in the diocese found alternative ways to celebrate Palm Sunday, the popular holy day, in light of coronavirus restrictions.

Parishes around the Diocese distributed palms outside of churches on Palm Sunday - many in their parking lots. See photo album.

As turbulent as things are with this pandemic, “I’m very much at peace and feel incredibly blessed … that God has brought me to this point,” said John Larochelle, a seminarian in the Diocese of Worcester.

About 16 Theology on Tap participants met at their regular time but not at their normal meeting place. They met online, via Zoom

Nineteen priests have been trained to be designated ministers to the sick, according to Msgr. James P. Moroney, director of the Office for Divine Worship.

“This time of pandemic must also be a time of prayer,” Bishop McManus said in a letter to priests asking them to invite parishioners to a new prayer initiative.

WORCESTER – The Diocese of Worcester is joining with dioceses around the country to promote a nationwide system to report abuse by a bishop.