New Leader Appointed for Catholic Social Services

FALL RIVER — A licensed social worker with a 30-year career in human services in positions ranging from clinician to senior manager will become the next executive director of Catholic Social Services (CSS) of the Fall River Diocese. Susan Mazzarella (in photo at right) of Riverside, R.I.,

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Three Long-Serving Priests to Retire

FALL RIVER — Three priests will retire in early summer after offering decades of service in the Fall River Diocese. Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., announced in May his acceptance of the request to retire of the Reverend George C. Bellenoit, who is pastor of St.

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Three to be Ordained Transitional Deacons

FALL RIVER — Three seminarians studying for the priesthood for the Fall River Diocese will be ordained transitional deacons by Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V, in the context of an 11 a.m. Mass on Saturday, May 27, in St. Mary’s Cathedral, Fall River. To be ordained

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