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The pope releases a dove as a symbol of peace while in Tbilisi, Georgia, in September 2016. Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty imagesby Robert Gillis, Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, published in the…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 4/2019 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” — John…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper 1/2015 And also sent, along with a personal letter, to His Eminence Seán Patrick O’Malley OFM “Preach…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 11/2014 The month of November means many things: the beginning of the Christmas season (at precisely one second…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper, 3/2014 (Written at the request of a great group of people on the FaceBook group “ST KEVIN PARISH & SCHOOL /…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 5/2013 Each year around this time, I’ve made it a tradition to write a piece about spirituality, about…
Note: Originally published 11/28/2012, and one of the most important pieces I have ever written, please note the following: The 2012 concerts noted here have obviously taken place; CLICK HERE…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper 7/2012 and the Foxboro Reporter 8/2012 ived my first 25 years in Dorchester, and while I have moved away, I am…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City paper 10/2011 A few years ago I attended a family wedding. During mass, several of my other cousins and…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City paper, 5/2011. While Easter has passed and elections have been in full swing here in Foxboro, we are…
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter 12/2008 and 12/2005, and the Boston City Paper 12/2008 When I was a teenager, our friend Eileen Gustin worked at the information…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City paper 3/2008 Years ago, Mom explained that you receive what is known as a plenary indulgence if you…
In loving memory of Father John Joseph Kierce, pastor of Saint Kevin Church, Uphams Corner, Dorchester for 50 years by Robert Gillis published in the Foxboro Reporter, 3/2006 and the…
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter 6/2005 and the Boston City Paper 2006 The evil actions of a very small percentage of priests have cast a shadow of…
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter 4/2005 and the Boston City Paper 4/2007 The legacy of Pope John Paul II will be chronicled, celebrated, debated, cherished, pondered, analyzed,…