Archdiocese of Boston
Boston’s Catholic archdiocese expands effort to digitize archives
By Aysha Khan — August 12, 2019
BOSTON (RNS) — The data will help individuals hoping to trace back their family ancestry, as well as historians, genealogists, economists and other scholars looking for bulk data for their research.
Seminary investigation to begin in wake of sexual misconduct allegations
By Eric Berger — August 13, 2018
(RNS) Cardinal Sean O’Malley said the investigation will look into the allegations as well as the 'culture of the seminary regarding the personal standards expected and required of candidates for the priesthood.'
Cardinal Law, central figure in church abuse scandal, dies
By Rachel Zoll — December 20, 2017
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The disgraced former archbishop of Boston's failures to stop child molesters in the priesthood sparked what would become the worst crisis in American Catholicism.
Massachusetts church vigil ending after 11 years
By Jerome Socolovsky — May 21, 2016
(RNS) Angry their parish would be closed in the wake of the clergy sexual abuse crisis, around 100 parishioners took turns sleeping overnight in the church.
Satanists to stage ‘black Mass’ at Harvard
By Kimberly Winston — May 9, 2014
(RNS) “This activity separates people from God and the human community, it is contrary to charity and goodness, and it places participants dangerously close to destructive works of evil," the Archdiocese of Boston said.
Boston cardinal reshuffles parishes to meet priest shortage
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — November 15, 2012
(RNS) Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley on Thursday kicked off an ambitious, four-year project to reorganize the archdiocese’s 288 parishes into approximately 135 ``parish collaboratives,'' each headed by a single pastor and served by a ministry team. By G. Jeffrey MacDonald.
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