Greater Springfield communities to celebrate World Refugee Day

 
(Photo by Father Bill Pomerleau)

By Father Bill Pomerleau
SPRINGFIELD – Dozens of recent and not-so-recent refugees in Greater Springfield will gather over the next few days at three sites to celebrate

Religious Retirement Office gives $23 million to orders in need

Staff report 

WASHINGTON — The National Religious Retirement Office (NRRO) distributed $23 million in financial assistance in June to 439 religious

Storyteller Tom McCabe to entertain at Toddler Play Group June 20

Staff report
SOUTH HADLEY – Improvisational storyteller Tom McCabe will be a special guest at the Children’s Play Group at St. Patrick Parish, here, on Thursday, June 20 at 9:30 a.m.

Pope says false ideas of freedom spawn threats to human life

(CNS photo/ Paul Haring)

By Francis X. Rocca, Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Ideologies and practices that destroy human life arise from false ideas of freedom without God, Pope Francis told