As St. Patrick Parish approaches its 190th anniversary, and the City of Lowell marks 200 years since the first Irish laborers came to work there, a part of their history is being restored to its original home: a 180-year-old bell that has called people to prayer, action, and community at different times in the city's history.

Cardinal Séan O’Malley on Friday visited the site of the beachfront condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, officials said. O’Malley reportedly met with rescue workers and prayed with family members. He also visited a floral memorial honoring the victims of the collapse.

After spending time at Surfside’s informal Wall of Remembrance memorial for the victims of the Champlain Towers South collapse, Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski told CBS4 Miami July 2, “It’s quite shocking to see.” He made the comments during his visit to the memorial with Boston Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley and Father Juan Sosa, pastor of St. Joseph Church, which is close to the site.

Fr. Dobrowski was ordained in 1971 in Lynn, Massachusetts, at Holy Family Church, the Italian parish where he grew up as the only child of parents whose first language was Polish.

Boston College is facing a wave of Catholic parents and students “disgusted” by religious exemptions being denied over a link to aborted fetal tissue used to test the efficacy of coronavirus vaccines.

Some of those parents told the Herald Monday they are rallying together in a desperate attempt to change the Jesuit school’s stance before fall classes begin on August 30. Some are also concerned top athletes could drop out.

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Four Catholic Charities branches and three Catholic legal organizations have signed onto a letter urging top U.S. immigration officials to address the concerns of Special Immigrant Juvenile, or SIJ, status holders who remain at risk of deportation despite their eligibility to apply for green cards. Catholic Charities agencies of Boston; Pueblo, Colorado; Southern New Mexico; and the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston are listed as signatories of the letter. Catholic Charities of New York also told NCR it supports the initiative, but does not appear as a signatory because of a clerical error.

A proposal to construct a new $27.6 million public safety facility for the town of Ipswich off Linebrook Road could go before voters in a Special Town Meeting this fall, following the completion of a feasibility study. The town has already obtained approval for and purchased a 12-acre site at the intersection of Linebrook and Pine Swamp roads, land that had been owned by the Archdiocese of Boston.