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GREENVILLE — Encouragement, physical and emotional healing, relaxation, joy and companionship: There are an endless list of benefits that three-year-old Georgi, a playful and loving Cavachon therapy ...

PROVIDENCE — At the 1906 dedication of Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Providence Bishop Matthew Harkins refused to celebrate Mass because of tensions with the church's first pastor, Father Antonio M.

CRANSTON — St. Paul’s Parish school in Cranston is organizing a gala for the 100th anniversary of its founding of the school to be held on Friday, Sept. 15, from 6 p.m. to midnight at the Rhodes at ...

ON A MISSION: From left, Sisters Veronica Sanchez, Wendy Palacios, Jessica Bernal, Cristina Gomez and Nancy Ortiz enjoy the grounds of the newly established novitiate of the Missionary Sisters, ...

BALTIMORE — About two weeks ago, during his last days as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Providence Bishop-Designate Bruce Lewandowski welcomed Rhode Island Catholic to shadow him ...

EAST GREENWICH — “In giving the world priests, He gives us His own Son’s mediators on earth, earthen vessels that we are, and imperfect and weak as we can be. No priest knows why God has called him, ...

CHARLESTOWN — On Monday, July 24, the Living in the Spirit tent revival began its first day of prayer meetings. Held at St. James chapel in Charlestown and taking place over the course of three days, ...

ROME — Romans 5:5 states that “Hope does not disappoint,” and these words resound amid the chaos of the modern world. Perhaps that is why Pope Francis announced 2025 as Jubilee Year with the theme ...

PROVIDENCE — In a resounding inaugural event on Dec. 1, the Young Adult Evangelization ministry successfully launched its much-anticipated First Fridays program. This monthly initiative, designed to ...

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 ...

PROVIDENCE — Just two days before the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, the parish hall of the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul was filled with women of all ages and vocations. Their goal was to ...