WILKES-BARRE — Father Paul Damien and the Parishioners of St. Anthony and St. George Maronite Church will welcome Monsignor John Esseff to celebrate a healing Mass at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18 at the ...

NEW BEDFORD -- Monsignor Michael G. Thomas, a New Bedford native now serving as a pastor in Miami, will be the principal celebrant of the 10 a.m. Mass tomorrow at Our Lady of Purgatory Maronite Rite ...

NEW BEDFORD — "God has a sense of humor," said the Rev. Jack Morrison. Raised as a Protestant, the Catholic priest of Scottish descent is the pastor of the Maronite parish of Our Lady of Purgatory ...

Background: Born in Springfield, Mass., and raised in Albany and Colonie, he graduated from Boston College and received a law degree from American University in Washington. He and his wife, Diana, ...

The parishioners and pastor of St. Sharbel Maronite Catholic Church have been enjoying their new church in Clinton Township since spring. This Sunday, however, when the church bell rang in the tower, ...

When a priest consecrates, or makes holy, the bread and wine during a Maronite Rite Mass, he speaks in Aramaic, the spoken language of Jesus Christ. Hearing the words Jesus is said to have used when ...

PLEASANTVILLE — Three languages were used Saturday afternoon — four, if you count “Ave Maria” being sung in Latin — as Johnny Builes and Jennifer Zumot, of Egg Harbor Township, were the first couple ...

The congregation of St. Sharbel Maronite Catholic Mission of Louisiana is so small it doesn’t even have its own place of worship or a full-time priest, but they’re praying that will soon change. The ...