4+ hour, 18+ min ago   (247+ words) Sunderland " First Congregational Church of Sunderland, 91 S. Main St., Serendipity Shop is open on Saturdays, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with items for sale at bargain prices. Weekly Sunday church service is offered at 11 a.m. in-person or on Zoom. Email [email protected] or visit the church…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (248+ words) Sunderland " First Congregational Church of Sunderland, 91 S. Main St., Serendipity Shop is open on Saturdays, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with items for sale at bargain prices. Weekly Sunday church service is offered at 11 a.m. in-person or on Zoom. Email [email protected] or visit the church…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (344+ words) SPRINGFIELD " Timothy L. McDonnell, retired bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, announced that an "untreatable cancer is spreading within me" and says he has moved to hospice care "for long or short " only God knows." "I find myself thinking…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1774+ words) For years, black wrap has protected the edges of Springfield's Campanile, where long cracks mar Indiana limestone. Its bells hang silent and the hands of its four-sided clock sit frozen in time. The city's top building official says it would…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (280+ words) The archbishop of Boston will meet in January with the priest of a Roman Catholic church in Dedham to discuss the church's Nativity scene that had been designed to criticize U.S. immigration policies. The scene in front of St. Susanna Parish…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (231+ words) SOUTHWICK " The Southwick Civic Fund is bringing back a Christmas tradition with "good old-fashioned" caroling throughout the town's neighborhood. "We'll be rolling out, bundled up, and singing our way through town on classic farm tractors sharing a little light, laughter…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (554+ words) Dear Abby: I'm a twice-divorced woman who has no children. I was raised by two deeply religious parents (now deceased) who attended church every Sunday and took me along. I regularly attended church until 15 years ago. At that time, my…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (1052+ words) When parishioners at St. Susanna Parish in Dedham gathered for Advent this year, they were met by a nativity scene without figurines of baby Jesus, Mary or Joseph. Instead, a stark message on white paper was pinned at the manger's…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (505+ words) The priest of a Roman Catholic church in Dedham is defending a Nativity scene outside the parish that protests U.S. immigration policies and says he won't take it down until he's able to talk to Boston's archbishop. The Nativity scene at…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (421+ words) It's a spiritual tool, said the Rev. Dr. Terrlyn L. Curry Avery: Wander the curving path; emerge with an insight. "It's the power of a centering place," she said. The 40-or-so-member congregation returned last month to its newly rebuilt sanctuary at…...