Last year, St. Dominic’s took over the operation of the Holy Savior School in Rumford. Parishioners and parents of children who attend the school were told that would benefit curriculum offerings. Imagine the surprise, shortly after notices were sent home to register for the 2018-2019 school year, we find out the school will be closing. […]
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School closing came as a shock
There is no greater responsibility that falls upon any community than the education of its children. The future health and well-being of any community depends on it. Churches and schools are established within communities at the will and desire of the people to come together for common causes and beliefs. The result is a stronger […]
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Special events to highlight Catholic church celebration of St. Patrick’s Day
PORTLAND — Masses and special events at churches across Maine will highlight the diocese’s celebration of the Feast Day of Saint Patrick on Saturday, March 17. The feast day holds special significance in the Diocese of Portland as Saint Patrick, along with Saint Jean Baptiste, is a secondary patron of the diocese. Saint Patrick, who […]
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Catholic Church welcomes immigrants
The Catholic Church is consistent and forthright in support of migrants and refugees, calling on all the faithful to welcome and protect them. In the Nativity story, the holy family became refugees when they fled to Egypt to escape Herod’s slaughter of the innocents. In the Book of Exodus, the tribe of Israel flees Egypt […]
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Joline B. Pequinot
BRUNSWICK — Joline B. Cloutier Mann Pequinot, 78, of Brunswick, passed away peacefully at home Sunday, Feb. 4, after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born in Lewiston on Sept. 11, 1939, the daughter of the late Robert E. Cloutier and Delima P. (Caron) Cloutier. Joline attended Lewiston schools where she enjoyed roller skating, going […]
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Maine churches take flu precautions, urge worshippers to take hands-off approach
Maine churches are suspending traditional rituals such as sharing communion wine and shaking hands to try to prevent the spread of flu as cases of illness and hospitalizations increase rapidly around the state. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, which covers all of Maine, announced Thursday that parishes would be directed to suspend the sharing […]
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Cardinal Law, major figure in Catholic church abuse scandal, dies
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failure to stop child molesters in the priesthood triggered the worst crisis in American Catholicism, died Wednesday in Rome at age 86. Law, who spent his final years in various Vatican posts, had been sick and was recently hospitalized. Law was […]
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Former Maine priest pleads not guilty to sex assault charges
A former Jesuit priest and longtime Cheverus High School teacher pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he sexually abused a 9-year-old boy at a Freeport church nearly 20 years ago. James Francis Talbot, 80, has been held at Cumberland County Jail in Portland since Wednesday, when he was extradited from Missouri. He appeared Friday […]
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Ex-priest who was fired from Cheverus and went to prison now faces new sex charges in Maine
A former Jesuit priest who taught and coached at Cheverus High School for nearly two decades before being fired in 1998 is scheduled to be arraigned in Portland on charges he sexually assaulted a minor in Freeport nearly 20 years ago. A grand jury indictment dated Nov. 9 and obtained by the Press Herald on […]
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Italian police link Mafia and priest to millions stolen from migrant charity
ROME — The mafia has moved in on one of Italy’s few growth industries: caring for migrants. Italian authorities on Monday arrested 68 people, including a priest and the head of a huge Catholic volunteer group, “Mercy,” and accused them of being in cahoots with a major mafia clan that allegedly skimmed millions in public […]