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GLOUCESTER -- Gus Sanfilippo was like Al Cottone's little brother. Sanfilippo was the captain of the Lily Jean, the iconic Gloucester fishing vessel...
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BRAINTREE -- Gov. Maura Healey has proposed legislation that would restrict federal immigration enforcement inside of Massachusetts churches. Speaking...
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TOPSFIELD -- As a girl, Betty Chagnon had no idea there was a Great Depression. Growing up on a farm in Hamilton, Chagnon and her eight siblings lived...
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BRAINTREE -- Pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Boston joined the tens of thousands who marched for life in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 23. About 60 young...
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CAMBRIDGE -- As thousands traveled to Washington, D.C., for the annual March for Life, many Boston Catholics supported the pro-life cause with prayer by...
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BEVERLY -- Since it was installed in 2017, the seismograph in the middle school science classroom at Saints Academy in Beverly has picked up many seismic...
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CAMBRIDGE -- The fourth graders at St. Peter School in Cambridge will have a part of themselves on icy roads for years to come. The class beat hundreds...
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Your archdiocesan newspaper has a very long tradition of remembering the dead and thus reminding all of us to pray for them. You read this every week in...
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BRAINTREE -- Lima, Peru, is a sprawling city of over 11 million people, located along a scenic coastline and beneath imposing mountains. Much of the city...
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ARLINGTON -- Within one year, Fidelity House in Arlington lost its most important person and its most important asset. The daycare, rec center, and after-school...
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BRIGHTON -- The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity was marked with a Jan. 15 Taize prayer service at the motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Brighton....
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BRAINTREE -- When Helen Blinstrub, former principal of St. Mary of the Annunciation School in Melrose, was in the hospital, a group of volunteers was organized...
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WESTWOOD -- "I love near-death experiences," says Mark Watson. "Not that I love them, but the notion of people having an out-of-body experience, that they...
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NEWTON -- "Everything is huge here," says Coline Godard. Godard, a sophomore at Institution La Croix Blanche in Lille, France, spent three weeks in the...
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