"In 1835, they put up the first Catholic Church on Church Street, behind where McDevitt (Middle School) is now," said Al Arena, director of the Waltham Museum. Since then, St. Mary Church has ...

The St. Charles parish had been merged in recent years with St. Mary’s ... church dates back to 1909 when the Roman Catholic Archdiocese decided to establish a second catholic parish in Waltham.

The obscure Catholic order of Stigmatines is in ... The Rev. Michael Nolan of St. Mary’s in Waltham — an archdiocesan priest who is a friend of the Stigmatines — said he’s frustrated ...