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Parish employees diocese-wide are cordially invited to the Chancery Office Building, One Cathedral Square, Providence, for a morning of faith and fellowship on either Wednesday, October 11th or Thursday, October 12th.

The faithful in Rhode Island will have their final New England opportunity to view relics of the renowned 20th century mystic and healer, Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina – better known as Padre Pio – at St. Thomas More Church in Narragansett, on Sunday, Oct. 1.

Respect Life Month begins with Human Life Guild Day, Saturday, September 30, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Saints Rose and Clement Parish, Warwick. The annual conference provides a venue for pro-life advocates to come together in prayer and fellowship to discuss current pro-life issues.

Respect Life Month begins with Life Chain Sunday

At SS. Rose & Clement Parish in Warwick at 9am – 2:30pm.

Bishop Tobin's Without A Dooubt

Calling hours will be on Friday, September 29, 2017 from 4 - 7pm at Manning-Heffern Funeral Home, 68 Broadway, Pawtucket. A Concelebrated Mass of Christian Burial for the repose of Father’s soul will be offered on Saturday, September 30, 2017 at 10am at St. Raymond Church, North Main Street, Providence. Burial will follow at Mount St. Mary Cemetery, Pawtucket.

Relics of the renowned 20th century mystic and healer, Saint Pio of Pietrelcina – better known as Padre Pio – will be at the St. Thomas More Church, on October 1st, 2017.

Join us Wed., Sept. 27th at the 12:05 Mass

Many schools around the Diocese of Providence show great generosity and care for others

The Diocese of Providence will host a Blue Mass for Police, Fire and First Responders on Sunday, September 24, at 10:00 a.m. in the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul.

Year with Mary Our Mother

Last Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), ...

The Priest Retirement Fund is the primary means by which those Catholic Priests who have served for decades in the Diocese of Providence are cared for in their later years.

Diocesan officials say that their hearts go out to those affected when the St. Joseph Health Services of Rhode Island Inc. pension fund entered receivership last month.

Rhode Island Catholic Executive Editor Rick Snizek sat down with Monday with Bishop Thomas J. Tobin to discuss the situation regarding the troubled St. Joseph Health Services of Rhode Island Inc. pension plan.

Bishop Tobin's Without A Doubt

911. For years, those numbers simply meant a call for help. Now they also remind us of September 11, 2001...

Celebrating National Recovery Month and raising awareness for substance use and mental illness.