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Catholic Appeal raises $4.3 million
FALL RIVER — The 81st Catholic Appeal, “Journeying Together in Faith and Love,” has closed with the annual campaign raising $4.3 million to support...
Diocesan Parish Leader Convocation slated for September in East Freetown
By Dave Jolivet
FALL RIVER — In their ongoing efforts to keep diocesan faithful informed and enlightened, Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., and the...
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Long-time golf classic returns to benefit Diocesan Health Facilities
By Dave Jolivet
LAKEVILLE — It’s a life dynamic. There are days when people are active, outdoors and living life to it’s fullest. There also...
Catholic Appeal raises $4.3 million
FALL RIVER — The 81st Catholic Appeal, “Journeying Together in Faith and Love,” has closed with the annual campaign raising $4.3 million to support...
Diocesan Parish Leader Convocation slated for September in East Freetown
By Dave Jolivet
FALL RIVER — In their ongoing efforts to keep diocesan faithful informed and enlightened, Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., and the...
Boys will be boys!: Cardinal Medeiros residents get a cool treat
By Paul C. Canuel, retired priest of the Diocese of Fall River
FALL RIVER — While all the traffic and excitement on Wednesday afternoon, July...
School superintendent Roy reflects on the priceless value of Catholic teachers
Andrew Raposo, principal of Espirito Santo Parochial School in Fall River, is shown outside of the Cathedral after an Eighth-grade Mass with Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V.
Fall River Catholic high school plans to become 100 percent solar...
Fall River — The Diocese of Fall River recently announced its intention to install a 544 kW-DC solar system on the roof of Bishop...
Father Roger LandryPutting into the Deep
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An apostle of Eucharistic Revival for every age
Earlier this week, on August 2, the Church celebrated the feast of St. Peter Julien Eymard (1811-1868), whom future generations have rightly come to...
St. John Vianney’s pastoral plan for Eucharistic Revival
As Catholics in the United States enter more deeply into the three-year Eucharistic Revival inaugurated by the American bishops last month on the Solemnity...
An important Papal contribution to the Eucharistic Revival
Ten days after the Church in the United States began the three-year national Eucharistic Revival on June 19, Pope Francis gave a major contribution...
Dave JolivetMy View from the stands
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A mother fights back
In 1987 and 1988 beaches along the shores of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey were awash with sewerage and medical waste, including used...
God’s magnificent tapestry comes to life
Wow, I don’t know where to start this column, so I’ll use a favorite method of operation of mine, song lyrics. In 1987, the...
Missing the boats
I never know what the final layout of each Anchor edition will be until a day or two before press day. So, when the smoke...
Dr. Helen FlavinWrestling with god
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A hand up to walk together in kindness
As an adolescent, the tale of Martha and Mary (Lk 10:38-42) always puzzled me. We are called to be doers (and not just hearers)...
Surrender: Seeds grow
As an adolescent, I never understood Jesus’ words, “I have more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when He comes,...
The light beyond: Responding to the Face of God
A second-grader wailed in tears. What hurt more than the skinned knee was his friends laughing at him as well. Cardinal Van Thuan expressed it...
David CarvalhoAs For Me and My House
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One at a time
One at a time. It’s a common phrase I have to use with my kids, whether it’s when they grab all their toys at...
Acceptance is the first step
Often times when I become frustrated or make mistakes it is usually because I am stuck in the same, self-serving mindset. It is only...
What is the end of all this anyway?
One of the key lessons I learned when I started working as a high school teacher was to begin planning the year with the...
Youth ColumnBe Not Afraid
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The little Civic that couldn’t: Signs of damage
It was the hottest day of the summer in Chesapeake, Va., and throughout the area of Hampton Roads. I am certain that there were...
The climb
I’m not sure if it’s because I’m getting older, or some of today’s music artists have poor diction, but many times I can’t understand...
Caution: Construction zone
As a school teacher, I always look forward to summer vacation but probably never as much as this summer. This school year felt like...
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The vocational key to ongoing Eucharistic Revival
The center of the Eucharistic Revival, the three-year initiative of the Church in the United States, is obviously and appropriately the Eucharistic Jesus, the...
Defending and supporting pregnancy help centers
Since the leak of what became the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in May, pregnancy help centers — crisis pregnancy centers that...
Welcome to the post-Roe America
We now live in a post-Roe America. Thanks to the June 24 Dobbs v. Jackson decision by the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v....
Year of St. Joseph
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St. Joseph knocks at the door … Open your heart to...
Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. All of Creation proclaims the coming of Christ! As the bright stars in the Heavens...
St. Joseph — The saint of silence
This month, in preparation for the Liturgical season of Advent, the Church reflects upon Christ’s coming in history, in mystery in the Holy Eucharist...
St. Joseph, powerful intercessor for the Holy Souls in purgatory
November has traditionally been the month to pray for the dead, particularly for the holy souls in purgatory. The “Catechism of the Catholic Church”...
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