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DIOCESE TO AGAIN HOST RECONCILIATION WEEKEND: Looking to build on last year's first-time effort that drew an estimated 5,000 persons to confession, the Fall River Diocese will again hold a Lenten Reconciliation Weekend. On Friday evening, March 19, and during the day on Saturday, March 20, parishes will offer an extended, unified schedule for the Rite of Reconciliation and sacrament of Penance, popularly called confession. find out more...

READ BISHOP COLEMAN'S 2010 LENTEN MESSAGE: LIVE AS CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT find out more...

LENTEN RESOURCES WEBSITE from the U.S. CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS find out more...

BISHOP COLEMAN AUTHORIZES SPECIAL COLLECTION TO ASSIST VICTIMS OF FLOODING ON MADEIRA Bishop George W. Coleman has authorized pastors who wish to do so to take up a special collection to assist the victims of the flooding and mudslides on the Portuguese island of Madeira. find out more...

AN UPDATE FROM HAITI A Catholic Relief Services official working in Haiti has written to donors to thank them for their contributions and to share what their gifts mean to the people of Haiti. The special earthquake relief collection taken up in the Diocese will support CRS efforts. find out more...

ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, where the Bishop has his chair- in Greek, cathedra- is the spiritual center of the Diocese. Begun in 1852, it is built of native granite and has a spire towering 190 feet above ground. find out more...

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10 QUESTIONS ON SWINE FLU and the LITURGY From the U.S. Catholic Bishops' Conference Secretariat of Divine Worship find out more...

PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL OF LIFE Learn more about the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) -and what you can do to stop it- through this PowerPoint presentation prepared by the Diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate. find out more...

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