NARRAGANSETT — “You couldn’t have asked for a better day,” said parishioner Peter Rogozinski as he and other faithful celebrated the 50th anniversary of St. Mary Star of the Sea.

<i>With special attention being focused on the vocations lived by men and women religious during the celebration of the 14-month Year of Consecrated Life called for by Pope Francis, Rhode Island ...

In a photo first featured in May 2005, in the farewell edition of The Catholic Exponent, the official newspaper of the Diocese of Youngstown, Bishop Tobin visits with Catholic school children.

PROVIDENCE – When Christopher Nocera learned that the Holy Name Province of Franciscan Friars would close St. Francis Chapel on Westminster Street on Nov. 7, he felt a great personal loss but also ...

CHARLESTOWN — A streak of bright orange sunlight illuminated the altar of St. James Chapel while more than 300 faith-filled Catholics seeking healing sat in rapt attention as a well-known Catholic ...

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 ...

CELEBRATION: Bishop Thomas J. Tobin was the main celebrant of Mass honoring the 125th anniversary of Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Providence. Pictured above, Bishop Tobin, Father Antonio Paiva, ...

PROVIDENCE — Two longtime Catholic educators who share a rich legacy of compassionate ministry and a vision for excellence were recently named to lead two diocesan schools.

BARRINGTON — For the last nine decades, the Discalced Carmelites in the Diocese of Providence have maintained a quiet, prayerful vigil on the shores of Narragansett Bay. They have only moved … ...

The Columban story began in the heart of a young Irish priest who was ordained in 1909, and started his ministry as curate in Brooklyn, N.Y. That priest, Father Edward Galvin, was on loan to Brooklyn ...

PROVIDENCE - Holy Ghost School, a fixture in the city’s Federal Hill neighborhood since 1923, faces possible closure in June without additional enrollment and financial support.

A dozen local, regional and international charitable organizations, including St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, pictured above, and Crystal Springs, in Assonet, Massachusetts, which provides ...