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Then and Now: Sacred Heart School established a proud Catholic school legacy in city


Sacred Heart School established a proud Catholic school legacy in Gardner
Mike Richard
Special for The Gardner News
The history of the Catholic Church in Gardner actually dates back 165 years when those Catholics of the community attended Mass at the area’s lone church, St. Martin’s of Otter River. At that time, there were some 125 Catholics in the community.
In 1856, Gardner’s first Catholic Mass was celebrated in a grove off Baker Lane. Some 18 years later, in 1874, the first Catholic Church of Gardner – the Sacred Heart of Jesus parish – was built.
Holy Rosary parish opened the community’s first parochial school in 1903, and 20 years later Sacred Heart parish established its own school in 1923, the same year Gardner became a city. ....

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Dioceses of Worcester defendant in Catholic priest sex abuse trial


Servants of the Paraclete had two New Mexico locations at the time, one in Albuquerque and one in Jemez Springs. 
Holley was sent to the Albuquerque Servants of the Paraclete location to get help for pedophilic tendencies  following allegations in Holley s home diocese in Worcester, Mass., records show.
Holley was at the Albuquerque location for about a year, according to a 1993 affidavit submitted by Holley to the Second Judicial Court in 1993.
According to the affidavit, Holley wanted to go to a Servants of the Paraclete facility on the East Coast.
Bishop (Bernard) Flanagan told me he wanted me to go to Servants of the Paraclete in New Mexico,  the affidavit states.  On March 23, 1971, I wrote to the Bishop telling him I would prefer to stay at a Paraclete house in the East, like their Vermont facility, but that I would do as he wished when he made the arrangements.It was clear to me that Bishop Flanagan was fearful that if I stayed in Massachusetts I w ....

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