HARPSWELL — A traditional St. Patrick’s Day dinner is planned March 17 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Elijah Kellogg Church on Route 123 in Harpswell. The cost is $8 for adults, $4 for children and $20 for a family. For more information, call 833-5567.

BRUNSWICK — St. Charles Borromeo Church continues its weekly benefit Lenten fish suppers today, with proceeds benefiting Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. Supper is served from 5 to 7 p.m. The church is located at 132 McKeen St. The meals cost $ 8 for adults, $4 for youth and $2 for those younger than 5. […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Vatican has taken the extraordinary step of overruling the closing of 13 parishes by the Cleveland Diocese, a lawyer who fought the cutbacks said Wednesday. The move represents a rare instance in which Rome has reversed a U.S. bishop on the shutdown of churches. The Vatican office known as the Congregation […]

DUBLIN In what seems like a surreal subplot from a Dan Brown novel, a number of irreplaceable religious relics have disappeared from churches across the country, the Irish police and a senior cleric say. The latest in a series of such thefts involved the removal of the preserved heart of St. Laurence O’Toole, Dublin’s 12th-century […]

BRUNSWICK — A Life in the Sunset Years Rally is planned at the Church of the Nazarene, 94 McKeen St., on Saturday. A potluck lunch runs from noon to 1 p.m., followed by the rally from 1:30 to 3 p.m. There will be special music and an oldfashioned hymn sing. Some people interviewed in the […]

Modern readers are sometimes troubled about the many Biblical passages in which Jesus and others heal the sick and cast out unclean spirits and demons. Today the Enlightenment has drawn a sharp dividing line between the natural and the supernatural, a line that Jesus and his disciples crossed in their healing. Yet surely their healing […]

FREEPORT — South Freeport Church will offer a haddock chowder luncheon on March 9 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The luncheon is buffet style and includes creamy haddock chowder, coleslaw, corn muffins, cake and a beverage. The cost is $8, which includes seconds. Pints of chowder are also available for take-out at $6. The […]

DURHAM — The Congregational Church at 773 Royalsborough Road, Route 136, is sponsoring and all-you-caneat barbecue chicken supper on March 10 from 4: 30 to 6 p.m. The cost is $9 for adults and $6 for seniors and ages 6 to 12. Younger children eat free. For more information, call Larry at 837-3735.

BRUNSWICK — St. Charles Borromeo Church continues its weekly benefit Lenten fish suppers today, with proceeds benefiting Tedford Housing. Supper is served from 5 to 7 p.m. The church is located at 132 McKeen St. The meals cost $ 8 for adults, $4 for youth and $2 for those younger than 5. There is also […]

FREEPORT — Pine Tree Academy, a private school affiliated with the Seventhday Adventist Church, is sponsoring an open house on Thursday at its 67 Pownal Road campus. The elementary school, grades pre-kindergarten to grade 8, will be open from 8 a.m. to noon. The academy, grades 9 to 12, will be open from 8 a.m. […]