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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...

RECONCILIATION WEEKEND: "...a special opportunity for the faithful to go to confession before Easter and to experience God's mercy," writes Bishop Coleman in his letter of invitation to the faithful of the Diocese. find out more...

WEEKEND COLLECTION TO SUPPORT CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES Parishes throughout the Diocese will participate in the Catholic Relief Services Collection during March 13/14 weekend Masses. The collection helps to fund programs that give hope to victims of war, natural disaster and drought as well as to refugees, immigrants and the impoverished. In Haiti, programs supported by the Catholic Relief Services Collection have been hard at work providing for the enormous humanitarian and pastoral needs of the victims of the devastating earthquake in January. find out more...

NOTED APOLOGIST TO SPEAK IN ACUSHNET Peter J. Kreeft, Ph.D., the popular writer on Christian theology and noted Catholic apologist, will speak on Why Be Catholic? Does It Really Matter? at St. Francis Xavier Church in Acushnet on Sunday, March 21, at 7 p.m. 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...

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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MANHATTAN DECLARATION: The November 2009 Manhattan Declaration unites the voices of Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox, and Evangelical Christians to reaffirm and to speak as one in defense of fundamental truths about the sanctity of human life, traditional marriage, and the rights of conscience and religious liberty. Earlier this year, Bishop George W. Coleman endorsed the document and invited priests and deacons to bring it to the attention of the diocesan faithful for their consideration. The bishop called the three issues addressed by the Declaration “principles of justice and the common good which underlie a moral, healthy society.” 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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