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DORCHESTER -- From visiting the incarcerated to holding a preschool playgroup and assisting exchange students to organizing community events, the Irish Pastoral Center aims to serve the spiritual, social, and cultural needs of the local Irish community. The Irish Pastoral Center (IPC), which calls itself "a parish without boundaries," is a collaboration between the Archdiocese of Boston and the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference in Ireland. It was founded in 1987 out of St. Mark Parish in Dorchester in response to an influx of Irish immigrants to the Greater Boston Area. The IPC provides a wi...

Longtime pastor, keen to needs, dies at 90 In 2001 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Cottage Grove, Fr. James Dowd gets hugs from the MacDonald boys — Joshua, 2, and Jaco, 6 — as Brian and Teri MacDonald look on. (Paul Neevel/Catholic Sentinel) 2/9/2021 12:54 PM select Fr. James Dowd EUGENE — Learning Spanish. Launching the Eugene Oktoberfest. Overseeing construction of parish halls. Father James Dowd did whatever was needed for the good of the people of God. A parish priest in western Oregon since 1956...

It is certainly not something you’d find in a hymnal at a Catholic church. Still, that was the message from The Archdiocese of Detroit on Wednesday when it announced the final parish groupings for Families of Parishes. - Advertisement - Over the next year-and-a-half, all parishes in the Archdiocese will join together into groups that will work together, sharing resources and talents, to further advance the shared mission of the local church. The Archdiocese plans to form 51 families of parishes, each consisting of three to eight churches and multiple priests. Most within each family bord...