The Diocese of Fall River has announced parish closures and mergers in New Bedford and Westport due to low attendance. Here's what we know.

Forty-four teens from parishes throughout the Diocese of Fall River were recognized with the Pope Saint Pius X Youth Award, according to a community announcement. The annual award, named for the ...

He succeeds Pope Francis, who served as the head of the Roman Catholic Church for 12 years until his death on April 21. Bells tolled from the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in Fall River ...

I’m in gagaga land': Pope Leo XIV is 1st American to lead church. MA's Catholics react ... Inc. will hold an open house at its new facility at 10 Hyacinth St., New Bedford.

A colonial home on Hovenden Avenue in Brockton that sold for $615,000 was gutted to the studs and fully renovated, according to the real estate listing. A colonial on Magnolia Way that sold that ...

Janet was born and raised in Rochester, New York and was the daughter of the late Fred and Bernice (Hilzinger) Nielsen. After graduating from Irondequoit High School in 1959, she attended St. Lawrence ...

Patricia Ann (Fraser) Johnson, age 86, of Acton, MA, formerly ... before settling in Bedford in 1965, where they raised their family. A woman of deep faith, Pat was an active parishioner and volunteer ...

FALL RIVER, Mass. (WJAR) — The Diocese of Fall River announced that five parishes will be closing as part of changes coming ...

During the past 175 years, the congregation of the Bedford Presbyterian Church ... 175th anniversary of the founding of the church at 105 W. Main St. “We don’t have an exact date for the ...

New Bedford Firefighter Michael Desouza and a 9-1-1 dispatcher from Waltham, MA, started CPR on the man they found floating in the water. A Massachusetts firefighter was vacationing with his ...

For the second straight year, Bedford North Lawrence edged New Albany in a thriller. BNL senior quarterback McCall Ray scrambled to the right, found daylight and scampered into the right corner of ...

NEW BEDFORD — There are 21 applicants to become the city of New Bedford’s next chief of police. The city received “significant interest in the chief of police position,” said Jonathan ...