FALL RIVER — The Fall River Diocese will welcome a new shepherd next week as Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., is installed as Eighth Bishop of Fall River. The installation will take place in the context of a 2 p.m. Mass on Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Read more →FALL RIVER — In response to a request from U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ President Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, parishes in the Fall River Diocese will take up a special collection to provide humanitarian relief and pastoral support for suffering Christians and other innocent victims of the
Read more →FALL RIVER — The 2014-2015 Catholic Directory for the Fall River Diocese is now available. Published by the Anchor Publishing Company, the full color spiral-bound directory is an invaluable reference guide for all parishes, offices and apostolates in the Diocese. As in past years, the Fall River
Read more →As the end of summer draws near, Catholic schools in the Fall River Diocese are in full preparation mode for the new academic year. For many, classes begin the week before Labor Day. “I am looking forward to a wonderful year ahead for the Catholic schools of
Read more →Father Raymond Cambra, Pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Fall River, at a regularly scheduled meeting of the Parish Pastoral Council on Tuesday, June 17, 2014, began to discuss the difficult but inevitable conclusion that the parish can no longer be maintained given the many challenges it
Read more →FALL RIVER — Pope Francis has appointed the Most Reverend Edgar Moreira da Cunha, S.D.V., currently an Auxiliary Bishop of the Newark, N.J. Archdiocese, to become the Eighth Bishop of the Fall River Diocese. He succeeds the Most Reverend George W. Coleman who, in accordance with Church
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