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Bishop Will Distribute Ashes to the faithful

The Office of Life and Family Ministry will begin the 40 Days for Life Lenten campaign on Wednesday, March 1st through Palm Sunday, April 9th.

As Lent approaches on Ash Wednesday (March 1), all pastors are asked to please make their parishioners aware of the following Lenten Regulations:

$80,000 will go a long way to help keep R.I. families warm this winter

With a record year in its 2016 Catholic Charity Appeal...

A Year with Mary Our Mother

Visitation will be held on Friday, February 24, 2017 from 10 to 11am at Saint John Vianney Church, 3609 Diamond Hill Road, Cumberland. A Concelebrated Mass of Christian Burial for the repose of Father Beaulieu’s soul will follow at 11am at St. John Vianney Church. Burial will follow at Notre Dame Cemetery, Pawtucket.

Bishop Thomas J. Tobin paid a pastoral visit to St. Charles Borromeo Parish, Providence, on Sunday,...

It’s not the norm when the Diocese of Providence calls a “town hall meeting.” Town hall meetings are commonly events where people air their concerns and ideas before elected officials. But a town hall meeting is the forum Bishop Thomas Tobin has selected to address the change the Catholic Church is experiencing.

Hundreds gather in Warwick to learn how to become involved in planning the future of the local church

Bishop Tobin's Without A Doubt

Funds to benefit the diocesan 'Keep the Heat On' heating assistance program

On Thursday, February 16 at 11:00 a.m., at the Chancery office building, One Cathedral Square, Providence.

Father Robert Perron, pastor of St. Michael Church, Providence, celebrated Mass for the students of Bishop McVinney School...

More than 150 communicants from Warwick’s 10 Catholic parishes squeezed into Hendricken’s Founders Hall Wednesday night to consider a future that bodes fewer parishioners, less funds and a lack of priests.

Diocesan Offices will be closed on Monday, February 20th.

Now is the time to contact Congress and advocate for the protection of life and freedom of conscience.

About 75 permanent deacons gathered for their annual daylong convocation.

Pro-choice legislators in the Rhode Island General Assembly introduced legislation last week that could dramatically alter the state’s current abortion laws ...

Bishop Thomas J. Tobin has joined a growing chorus of U.S. bishops who continue to express their reactions to President Donald Trump’s January 27 executive order...