Cardinal Sean O'Malley

Can SouthCoast Catholics eat corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick's Day, a Friday during Lent? The answer is complicated.

A decorated Boston police officer shot point-blank in the face by a suspect was in stable condition at a hospital Sunday and improving after surgery to remove a bullet lodged below his ear, police said. Officer John Moynihan, 34, underwent several hours of surgery at Boston Medical Center, where he was upgraded from critical condition after he was shot Friday night...

Cardinal Sean O'Malley is calling for prayers in the aftermath of the deaths of unarmed black men in New York City and Ferguson, Missouri.

The newest bishop of the Fall River Diocese was formally placed into power through the Rite of Installation Wednesday afternoon.

Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley says in a statement that new Pope Francis has his ``faithful support.''       The Boston Archdiocese released the statement Wednesday after the election of Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina.       O'Malley said an increasingly secular world culture will benefit from Francis' ``witnessing Jesus' Call for us to love God and love one another...

Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley says he expects to be wearing his brown hooded habit ``until I die'' despite questions about whether he may be a candidate to be the next pope.       O'Malley is in Rome along with other Roman Catholic cardinals who will choose a successor to recently retired Benedict XVI...

The Archdiocese of Boston has announced the death of Cardinal Sean O'Malley's 90-year-old stepmother.  According to a statement, Claire O'Malley died Sunday in Florida surrounded by her family.  Funeral arrangements have not been announced...