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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) _ A Massachusetts jury has awarded $300,000 to a man who said his sixth-grade Catholic school teacher in Massachusetts sexually assaulted him in the mid-1980s when he was 10. The unidentified man's attorneys say the New Bedford jury made the award last month...

Let me start off by saying that I am very religious. Raised Catholic, attend mass at St. Mary's Church almost every Sunday, and teach first grade Faith Formation at the parish every Saturday morning. Seeing this "holiday-themed" billboard from American Atheists is very disturbing for some...

The reasons are vague, but the Fall River Diocese says Father Marek Chmurski is still a priest in good standing. In a written statement, the Diocese says Father Chmurski was removed as the pastor at Saint Lawrence Martyr Parish in New Bedford after Bishop George Coleman heard from several parishioners over the past several months, becoming increasingly concerned over Father Chmurski's ministry...

The timing couldn't have been better for the Republican National Committee, meeting in Boston, to hear that Bishop Thomas Tobin, the leader of the Providence Catholic Diocese, has officially left the Democratic Party to become a Republican!

Pope John Paul II, who headed the Catholic Church from 1978 through his death in 2005, will soon officially become a saint. The sainthood was expected for the widely beloved pope, for whom thousands of Catholics chanted "Santo subito" ("Sainthood now”) in St...

President Obama recently said, during his Ireland trip, that towns will remain divided if Catholics have their schools and others have theirs. Why would he say such a thing about faith based schools?

After a hit and run accident in Rhode Island over the weekend, the Bishop in Worcester is in some trouble for drinking and driving.

Whether it's true or just a rumor, the new pontiff is said to have had a brief discussion with the former archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Bernard Law.

With the entire world celebrating the election of Pope Francis I, some Catholics are saying the time has arrived to address the question of whether to change the holy tradition of keeping a priest single all his life.

News from Vatican City, the new pope who was chosen is Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio from Argentina, a surprise pick from the Cardinals.