Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep December 21, 2012 On Tuesday we will mark one of the greatest scandals in history: there was no room in the inn. Not only did people turn their back on a woman about to give birth, but...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep December 14, 2012 During the Advent season we’ve become somewhat accustomed to hearing jeremiads against the commercialization of the season, from clergy, faithful and even those who long ago...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep December 07, 2012 The day before Thanksgiving was a rare treat when I had no afternoon or evening appointments. I decided to download to my iPad Pope Benedict’s third and final volume of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep November 30, 2012 Today we finish November, the month in which the Church annually reflects on the last things of death, judgment, Heaven and hell. Last week I mentioned that this meditation...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep November 23, 2012 During the month of November, which begins with All Saints’ Day and the Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed, Catholics are called to meditate on the last things...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep November 16, 2012 I’ve been a sports fan all my life and have witnessed some amazing comebacks, but few compare to the incredible recovery that was made with regard to Ballot Item 2...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep November 09, 2012 It’s not often, especially for us in the United States with our relatively brief history, that we have a chance to celebrate a 1,700th anniversary. When we look back...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep November 02, 2012 A month ago I received an email from a young woman from our diocese who is studying in Ohio. She was asking advice about whether she should register to vote in Ohio or get an...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep October 26, 2012 St. Gregory of Nyssa, one of the great early Fathers of the Church, said that, morally, we are our own parents. By our actions, by the choices we make in response to the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep October 19, 2012 Once a lawyer, to test Jesus, asked Him what he had to do to inherit eternal life. Jesus responded by asking the man first to give his own opinion of what was written in God’s...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep October 12, 2012 Yesterday, the Church began the Year of Faith. The context of this holy year is rather clear: It began four days into the Synod on the New Evangelization and the Transmission...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep October 05, 2012 The Year of Faith announced begins next Thursday. It has no official theme, but I think the best one would be, “Lord, increase our faith” (Lk 17:5), the plea the Apostles made...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep September 28, 2012 Two weeks ago, Fordham University brought together three very funny Catholics for a conversation on humor and joy in the spiritual life: Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep September 21, 2012 When I was in Lourdes earlier this month, I went early in the morning to pray at the Grotto where Mary appeared to St. Bernadette in 1858. I had with me a biography of St...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep September 14, 2012 At the beginning of September I went to Spain to do a retreat and a continuing formation course for priests in the Pyrenees. In addition to a lot of time for prayer...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep September 7, 2012 In the days leading up to Republican Convention, there were various television specials and articles about Mormonism, since Mitt Romney is the first Mormon ever to be...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep August 31, 2012 Last week, we considered Buffalo Bishop Richard Malone’s thoughts on martyrdom in the New Evangelization and we distinguished between what Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen used to...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep August 24, 2012 On August 10, Bishop Richard Malone was installed as the new shepherd of the Diocese of Buffalo. I’ve known Bishop Malone for more than 20 years, from the time he was chaplain...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep August 17, 2012 Last week I relaunched this column by focusing on the future Pope Benedict’s comment, “The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Putting Out Into The Deep August 8, 2012 In his pastoral plan for the Third Christian Millennium, Blessed John Paul II denominated “Put into the Deep” as the motto for the Church for the next thousand years. Like St...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 22, 2012 One of the lessons Blessed John Paul II brought with him from Poland to the papacy was the importance of opportunities to give the entire Church and the wider society the time to pray about...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 15, 2012 There’s a famous Latin aphorism corruptio optimi pessima, “The corruption of the best is the worst of all.” This is true not only because falls from grace are more severe the higher the position...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 08, 2012 On May 21, 43 Catholic institutions— dioceses, hospitals and health care chains, universities, elementary and high schools, Catholic Charities offices, peace centers, newspapers and cemetery...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial June 01, 2012 This Sunday the Church celebrates in a special way the mystery of the Holy Trinity. Jesus during the Last Supper prayed repeatedly to the Father for the Church He was founding, that the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 25, 2012 Prior to last Tuesday, the beautiful town of Acushnet was known mainly to residents of the south coast of Massachusetts. Most in other parts of the Commonwealth — not to mention outside its...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 18, 2012 Last Wednesday, President Barack Obama surprised no one when he announced — contrary to repeated affirmations during his 2004 senate and 2008 presidential campaigns that Marriage is the union of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 11, 2012 The recent controversy over the decision of Anna Maria College to rescind its invitation to Victoria Reggie Kennedy to give its May 19 commencement address and receive an honorary degree concerns...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial May 4, 2012 If one were to take seriously articles and columns in various news outlets, it would appear that a group of wicked misogynists in the Vatican are waging all-out war on religious women in the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 27, 2012 This weekend, on Good Shepherd Sunday, the Church will convene in parishes across the globe to carry out the Good Shepherd’s imperative to beg the Father for good shepherds to continue the work...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 20, 2012 Last Thursday, the U.S. Bishops’ Ad-Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty published a powerful statement on religious liberty in which they gave an “urgent summons” to Catholics and all Americans...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 13, 2012 During his customary press conference on “Shepherd One” with journalists traveling with him on the plane to Mexico, Pope Benedict was asked about the Church’s response to widespread...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial April 6, 2012 During his Palm Sunday homily, with his characteristic candor, comprehension, clarity, and courage, Pope Benedict led the Church to the Heart not only of Holy Week but also of the Christian...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 30, 2012 As we prepare for Palm Sunday and, in just over a week, Easter, it’s a time when many of the three-quarters of American Catholics who do not attend Mass weekly return to worship. These “Cape”—...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 23, 2012 On March 9, Pope Benedict gave the third of what should be five addresses on the challenges to the faith in our country to visiting American bishops making their quinquennial ad limina visits...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 16, 2012 Last week we began our examination of what we’ve been learning as a result of the Obama Administration’s decision to force objecting religious institutions, one way or the other, to pay for...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saturday of the Second week of Lent
March 10, 2012
Mi 7:14-15 18-20, Ps 103:1-4 9-12, Lk 15:1-3 11-32
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 9, 2012 It’s a new day for the Catholic Church — and for truly religious believers in general — in the United States. While the Church in the U.S. experienced discrimination in the past — most notably...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the Second week of Lent
March 9, 2012
Gn 37:3-4 12-13 17-18, Ps 105:16-21, Mt 21:33-43 45-46
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Thursday of the Second week of Lent
March 8, 2012
Jer 17:5-10, Ps 1:1-4 6, Lk 16:19-31
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Wednesday of the Second week of Lent
March 7, 2012
Je 18:18-20, Ps 31:5-6 14-16, Mt 20:17-28
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the Second week of Lent
March 6, 2012
Is 1:10 16-20, Ps 50:8-9 16-17 21 23,Mt 23:1-12
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the Second week of Lent
March 5, 2012
Dn 9:4-10, Ps 79:8-9 11 13, Lk 6:36-38
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Second Sunday of Lent (B)
March 4, 2012
Gn 22:1-2 9a 10-13 15-18, Ps 116:10 15-19, Rom 8:31-34, Mk 9:2-10
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial March 3, 2012 Lent is a time for growth in faith. It begins with our being marked with ashes and instructed to turn our backs on sin so that we may be faithful to the Gospel. There is for sure a need for us...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 24, 2012 In his letter for Lent, Pope Benedict XVI sought to spur all Catholics to the “very heart of Christian life: charity.” Even though on extraordinary occasions like the natural disasters in...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Ash Wednesday
February 22, 2012
Jl 2:12-18, Ps 51:3-6 12-14 17, 2Cor 5:20–6:2, Mt 6:1-6, 16-18
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the Seventh week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
February 21, 2012
Jas 4:1-10, Ps 55:7-11 23, Mk 9:30-37
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B February 19, 2012 Is 43:18-19,21-22, 24-25; 2Cor 1:18-22; Mk 2:1-12 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click at the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saturday of the Sixth week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
February 18, 2012
Jas 3:1-10, Ps 12:2-5 7-8, Mk 9:2-13
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 17, 2012 After three weeks of unrelenting outrage from all corners about the Department of Health and Human Services’ trampling of religious freedom in its January 20 mandate for free contraception...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the Sixth week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
February 17, 2012
Jas 2:14-24 26, Ps 112:1-6, Mk 8:34–9:1
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Thursday of the Sixth week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
February 16, 2012
Jas 2:1-9, Ps 34:2-7, Mk 8:27-33
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Wednesday of the Sixth week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
February 15, 2012
Jas 1:19-27, Ps 15:2-5, Mk 8:22-26
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the Sixth week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
February 14, 2012
Jas 1:12-18, Ps 94:12-15 18-19, Mk 8:14-21
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the Sixth week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
February 13, 2012
Jas 1:1-11, Ps 119:67-68 71-72 75-76, Mk 8:11-13
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saturday of the Fifth week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
February 11, 2012
1Kgs 12:26-32; 13:33-34, Ps 106:6-7 19-22, Mk 8:1-10
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B February 11, 2012 Lev 13:1-2,44-46; 1 Cor 10:31-11:1; Mk 1:40-45 WITNESSING TO THE TRUTH In today’s second reading, St. Paul encourages all...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 10, 2012 In last week’s editorial on defending our religious freedom in the midst of new attacks by the Obama Administration — the focus of Bishop George Coleman’s letter to the faithful of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the Fifth week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
February 10, 2012
1Kgs 11:29-32; 12:19, Ps 81:10-15, Mk 7:31-37
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Thursday of the Fifth week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
February 9, 2012
1Kgs 11:4-13, Ps 106:3-4 35-37 40, Mk 7:24-30
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Wednesday of the Fifth week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
February 8, 2012
1Kgs 10:1-10, Ps 37:5-6 30-31 39-40,Mk 7:14-23
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the Fifth week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
February 7, 2012
1Kgs 8:22-23 27-30, Ps 84:3-5 10-11, Mk 7:1-13
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the Fifth week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
February 6, 2012
1Kgs 8:1-7 9-13, Ps 132:6-10, Mk 6:53-56
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) February 5, 2012 Jb 7:1-4 6-7, Ps 147:1-6, 1Cor 9:16-19 22-23, Mk 1:29-39 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial February 3, 2012 On Apr. 16, 2008, when he appeared with President George W. Bush on the White House lawn, Pope Benedict XVI extolled America’s role as a beacon of freedom in world history and in the world...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the Fourth week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
February 3, 2012
Sir 47:2-11, Ps 18:31 47 50 51, Mk 6:14-29
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Wednesday of the Fourth week in Ordinary Time (B,II)
February 1, 2012
2Sm 24:2 9-17, Ps 32:1-2 5-7, Mk 6:1-6
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the Fourth week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
January 31, 2012
2Sm 18:9-10 14 24-25 30–19:3, Ps 86:1-6, Mk 5:21-43
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the Fourth week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
January 30, 2012
2Sm 15:13-14 30; 16:5-13, Ps 3:2-7, Mk 5:1-20
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) January 29, 2012 Dt 18:15-20, Ps 95:1-2 6-9, 1Cor 7:32-35, Mk 1:21-28 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click at the bottom...
Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 27, 2012 Next week is Catholic Schools Week throughout the Church in the United States, which is a time to focus on the importance of Catholic schools in the life and mission of the Church. It’s also...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the Third week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
January 24, 2012
2Sm 6:12-15 17-19, Ps 24:7-10, Gospel: Mark 3:31-35
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the Third week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
January 23, 2012
2Samuel 5:1-7 10, Ps 89:20- 25-26, Mk 3:22-30
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B January 22, 2012 Jonah 3:1-5,10; 1Cor 7:29-31; Mk 1:14-20 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click at the bottom of the...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saturday of the Second week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
January 21, 2012
2Sam 1:1-4 11-12 19 23-27, Ps 80:2-3 5-7, Mk 3:20-21
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the Second week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
January 20, 2012
1Sam 24:3-21, Ps 57:2-4 6 11, Mk 3:13-19
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 20, 2012 On Sunday, we mark the 39th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision that with its companion Doe v. Bolton made abortion legal in the United States for all nine months of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Thursday of the Second week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
January 19, 2012
1Sam 18:6-9; 19:1-7, Ps 56:2-3 9-14, Mk 3:7-12
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Wednesday of the Second week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
January 18, 2012
1Sam 17:32-33 37 40-51, Ps 144:1-2 9-10, Mk 3:1-6
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the Second week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
January 17, 2012
1Sam 16:1-13, Ps 89:20-22 27-28, Mk 2:23-28
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Monday of the Second week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
January 16, 2012
1Sam 15:16-23, Ps 50:8-9 16-17 21 23, Mk 2:18-22
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Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B January 15, 2012 1Sam 3:3-10,19; 1Cor 6:13-15,17-20; Jn 1:35-42 To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click at the bottom of...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Saturday of the First week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
January 14, 2012
1Sam 9:1-4 17-19; 10:1, Ps 21:2-7, Mk 2:13-17
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 13, 2012 Today is the fifth and last day of Vocations Awareness Week in the Catholic Church in the United States. This observance began in 1976 in order to help the whole people of God recognize that...
Fr. Roger J. Landry
St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Friday of the First week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
January 13, 2012
1Sam 8:4-7 10-22, Ps 89:16-19, Mk 2:1-12
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Thursday of the First week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
January 12, 2012
1Sam 4:1-11, Ps 44:10-11 14-15 25-26, Mk 1:40-45
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Wednesday of the First week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
January 11, 2012
1Sam 3:1-10 19-20, Ps 40:2-5 7-10, Mk 1:29-39
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday of the First week in Ordinary Time (B, II)
January 10, 2012
1Sam 1:9-20, 1Sam 2:1 4-8, Mk 1:21-28
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
January 9, 2012
Is 42:1-4 6-7, Ps 29:1-2 3-4 3 9-10, Acts 10:34-38, Mk 1:7-11
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St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, MA
Solemnity of Epiphany of the Lord
January 8, 2012
Is 60:1-6, Ps 72:1-2 7-8 10-13, Eph 3:2-3, 5-6, Mt 2:1-12
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Fr. Roger J. Landry The Anchor Editorial January 6, 2012 Ten years ago today, the Boston Globe published an article on the serial child abuse committed by Father John Geoghan, the suffering of his victims and their families, and the totally...
Fr. Roger J. Landry St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God January 1, 2012 Num 6:22-27; Gal 4:4-7; Lk 2:16-21 YOU ARE MY MOTHER NOW! Exactly eight months ago we celebrated the beatification of John Paul II...