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37-710: It was formed in 1808, branching off from the Diocese of Baltimore and growing rapidly during the 19th century. Starting in 2002 the archdiocese faced a sexual abuse scandal which touched off investigations of Catholic Church sexual abuse cases throughout the United States. Richard G. Henning has served as archbishop since October 31, 2024. The Archdiocese of Boston encompasses Essex County , Middlesex County, Norfolk County , and Suffolk County in Massachusetts. It includes most of Plymouth County except for

74-503: A humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) with some maritime influence. Summers are typically warm to hot, rainy, and humid, while winters oscillate between periods of cold rain and snow, with cold temperatures. Spring and fall are usually mild, with varying conditions dependent on wind direction and jet stream positioning. Prevailing wind patterns that blow offshore minimize the influence of the Atlantic Ocean . The hottest month

111-573: A combined total of about 16,000 students. The archdiocese previously used a headquarters facility in Brighton but sold it to Boston College in 2004 for $ 107,400,000. Steward Health Care System operates the former archdiocesan hospitals of Caritas Christi Health Care . Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include

148-565: A crime, with a potential life sentence, for a Catholic priest to reside in the colony. The political necessity of gaining Catholic support for the American Revolutionary War drove a change in popular attitudes in the colonies. The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , written by John Adams and ratified in 1780, established religious freedom in the new state. With the Massachusetts constitution being

185-497: A few miles inland, sometimes dropping by that amount near midday. Thunderstorms occur from May to September and are occasionally severe, with large hail , damaging winds and heavy downpours. Although Braintree has never been struck by a violent tornado , the city has experienced many tornado warnings . Damaging storms are more common in areas north, west, and northwest of the city. As of the census of 2000, there were 33,828 people, 12,652 households, and 8,907 families residing in

222-530: A household in the town was $ 85,590, and the median income for a family was $ 90,590 as of a 2007 estimate ). Males had a median income of $ 89,607 versus $ 36,034 for females. The per capita income for the town was $ 28,683. About 2.1% of families and 3.8% of the population were below the poverty line , including 4.6% of those under age 18 and 3.3% of those age 65 or over. Braintree is home to several large companies, including Altra Industrial Motion , Greater Media , and TopSource LLC . From 1964 to 1991, Braintree

259-468: A proposed 2023 law to remove the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse lawsuits. From 2011 and 2019 the Catholic church in Massachusetts spent over half a million dollars lobbying against such laws. The coat of arms of the archdiocese, shown in the information box to the right at the top of this article, has a blue shield with a gold cross and a gold "trimount" over a silver and blue "Barry-wavy" at

296-665: A town, but Braintree is a city with a mayor-council form of government, and it is considered a city under Massachusetts law. The population was 39,143 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Greater Boston area with access to the MBTA Red Line and is a member of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council's South Shore Coalition. The first mayor of Braintree was Joe Sullivan , who served until January 2020. The current mayor of Braintree

333-514: Is Erin Joyce who was elected in 2023, defeating incumbent Charles Kokoros. Braintree was colonized in 1635 and incorporated in 1640. The town is named after the Essex town of Braintree . Its boundaries initially were larger, but some portions were split into the municipalities of Quincy (incorporated in 1792), Randolph (1793), and Holbrook (1872). Braintree was part of Suffolk County until

370-695: Is July, with a mean temperature of 69.7 °F (20.9 °C). The coldest month is January, with a mean of 25.7 °F (−3.5 °C). Periods exceeding 90 °F (32 °C) in summer and below freezing in winter are not uncommon but are rarely extended, with about 13 and 25 days per year seeing each, respectively. The city's average window for freezing temperatures is November 9 through April 5. Official temperature records have ranged from −21 °F (−29 °C) in February 1934, up to 101 °F (38 °C) in August 1949 and 1974. Braintree's coastal location on

407-482: Is a symbol of the sea, alluding to Boston's role as a major seaport whose first non-indigenous settlers came from across the sea. The diocesan newspaper The Pilot has been published in Boston since 1829. The archdiocese's Catholic Television Center , founded in 1955, produces programs and operates the cable television network CatholicTV . From 1964 to 1966, it owned and operated a broadcast television station under

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444-668: Is accessible at the same location. Weekday rail service on the Greenbush Line started in late 2007 and is accessible from the Weymouth Landing/East Braintree station on Quincy Avenue. In July 2017, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and other Baker administration transportation officials visited a construction project in the city to highlight $ 2.8 billion spent during Baker's administration on highway construction projects and improvements to bridges, intersections, and sidewalks. Freight Rail service

481-417: Is divided into five pastoral regions, each headed by an episcopal vicar . Brookline Cambridge Somerville Winthrop E. Norfolk Co. As of 2018, the archdiocese had 112 schools with approximately 34,000 students in pre-kindergarten through high school. In 1993 the archdiocese had 53,569 students in 195 archdiocesan parochial schools. Boston had the largest number of parochial schools: 48 schools with

518-416: Is provided by Fore River Transportation Corporation , and CSX Transportation . From 1948 to 1968, the town was the home of Braintree Airport , a general aviation airport located near Great Pond that was used by civil defense officials and private pilots. The airport featured a 2,800-foot (850 m) dirt runway and offered flight training. Residential development, proximity to the town's water supply, and

555-567: The Cochato River ), Holbrook to the south, and Weymouth to the east. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 14.5 square miles (37.6 km ), of which 13.9 square miles (36.0 km ) is land and 0.6 sq mi (1.6 km ) is water. The total area is 4.34% water Park and recreation locations in Braintree include Pond Meadow Park , Sunset Lake , and Blue Hills Reservation . Braintree has

592-640: The Diocese of Baltimore . The new diocese consisted of the states of Connecticut , Massachusetts (including present-day Maine ), New Hampshire, Rhode Island , and Vermont. The pope named Cheverus as the first bishop of Boston. The exponential growth of the Catholic Church in New England through the nineteenth century led the Vatican to create new dioceses out of the Diocese of Boston and later

629-606: The French Revolution ministering to Boston's Catholic population at the turn of the century, Reverends Francis Anthony Matignon and John Cheverus , raised the funds to build a larger building, the Church of the Holy Cross. These buildings no longer exist, but they were the foundation of the Catholic Church in Massachusetts. Pope Pius VII erected the Diocese of Boston on April 8, 1808, taking all of New England from

666-549: The primary and secondary levels is managed by Braintree Public Schools (BPS), a system that includes one kindergarten center, six elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school. Private and alternative education institutions in Braintree include Thayer Academy , Archbishop Williams High School , and CATS Academy. Braintree is situated in the Greater Boston Area , which has rail, air, and highway facilities. State Route 128 and Interstate 95 divide

703-682: The Archdiocese of Boston. In the 1920s, Cardinal William O'Connell moved the chancery from offices near Holy Cross Cathedral in the South End to 127 Lake Street in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. "Lake Street" was a metonym for the bishop and the office of the archdiocese. In June 2004, the archdiocese sold the archbishop's residence and the chancery and surrounding lands in Brighton to Boston College , in part to defray costs associated with numerous cases of sexual abuse by clergy of

740-485: The North Atlantic moderates its temperature, but makes the city very prone to nor'easter weather systems that can produce much snow and rain. The city averages 48.63 inches (1,240 mm) of precipitation a year, with 61.1 inches (155 cm) of snowfall per season. Snowfall increases dramatically as one goes inland away from the city (especially north and west of the city)—away from the moderating influence of

777-628: The Pilgrims Highway, and I-93 and Route 1 heading west toward Route 128 . Commuter rail service to South Station , Boston , is available on the Middleboro & Plymouth lines from the Braintree Red Line/Commuter Rail Station located on Union Street. The CapeFLYER rail service from Boston to Hyannis as well as Buzzards Bay stations also stops at Braintree Station. The MBTA Red Line

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814-459: The archdiocese settled over 500 abuse-related claims for $ 85 million. Victims received an average of $ 92,000 each and the perpetrators included 140 priests and two others. Additional sex abuse allegations within the Archdiocese of Boston surfaced in later years as well. This included alleged abuse at Saint John's Seminary and Arlington Catholic High School . The Archdiocese of Boston lobbies against laws intended to help survivors of abuse, such as

851-407: The archdiocese. The archdiocesan offices of the archdiocese moved to Braintree . The archdiocesan seminary, Saint John's Seminary , remains on the property in Brighton. At the beginning of the 21st century the archdiocese was shaken by accusations of sexual abuse by clergy that culminated in the resignation of its archbishop, Cardinal Bernard Francis Law , on December 13, 2002. In September 2003,

888-523: The base of the shield. The "trimount" of three coupreaux represents the City of Boston, the original name of which was Trimountaine in reference to the three hills on which the city's original settlement stood. The cross, fleurettée , honors the Cathedral of the Holy Cross while also serving as a reminder that the first bishop of Boston and other early ecclesiastics were natives of France. The "Barry-wavy"

925-518: The call letters WIHS-TV . The Archdiocese of Boston is also metropolitan see for the Ecclesiastical province of Boston. This means that the archbishop of Boston is the metropolitan for the province. The suffragan dioceses in the province are the Diocese of Burlington , Diocese of Fall River , Diocese of Manchester , Diocese of Portland , Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts , and the Diocese of Worcester . The Archdiocese of Boston

962-516: The details below. Request from 172.68.168.132 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 941828425 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:51:41 GMT Braintree, Massachusetts Braintree ( US : / ˈ b r eɪ n ˌ t r i / ), officially the Town of Braintree , is a municipality in Norfolk County, Massachusetts . It is officially known as

999-469: The first state constitution in the United States, its framework of government became a model for the constitutions of other states and, eventually, for the federal constitution. In 1788, the Abbé de la Poterie, a former French naval chaplain serving in Boston, celebrated the city's first public mass in a converted Huguenot chapel at 24 School Street in Boston, which he named Holy Cross Church. Two refugees from

1036-418: The formation of Norfolk County in 1793. In 1888, the villages of Braintree and South Braintree were separate communities within the town of Braintree. In 1920, Braintree was the site of the murders that led to the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti . During that same decade, the town's population grew by more than 50%. Braintree shares borders with Quincy to the north, Randolph to the west (separated by

1073-559: The lack of reforms in the Church of England . These dissenters followed Martin Luther and John Calvin in rejecting the selling of indulgences , the celebration of a Latin Mass , the doctrine of transubstantiation , and papal authority. As these dissenters set up colonies in New England, they enacted legal restrictions on Catholics, including bans on Catholic worship. Massachusetts made it

1110-506: The occasional tropical storm or hurricane can threaten the region, especially in late summer and early autumn. The last such storm to impact the city was Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. Due to its situation along the North Atlantic, the city is often subjected to sea breezes, especially in the late spring, when water temperatures are still quite cold and temperatures at the coast can be more than 20 °F (11 °C) colder than locations

1147-559: The ocean. Most snowfall occurs from December through March, as most years see no measurable snow in April and November, and snow is rare in May and October. There is also high year-to-year variability in snowfall; for instance, the winter of 2011−2012 saw only 24.2 in (61.5 cm) of accumulating snow, but in the winter of 2014–2015, the figure was 150.8 in (383 cm). Fog is fairly common, particularly in spring and early summer, and

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1184-534: The population. More than 46% of town residents had Irish ancestry. As of 2014 Braintree had the 2nd highest concentration of Irish Americans in the entire country, slightly behind Scituate, Massachusetts . There were 12,652 households, out of which 29.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.4% were married couples living together, 11.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.6% were non-families. 24.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.9% had someone living alone who

1221-574: The region into inner and outer zones, which are connected by numerous "spokes" providing direct access to the airport, port, and intermodal facilities of Boston . Principal highways in Braintree are Interstate 93 (which runs concurrently with U.S. 1 ) and Route 3 , as well as 37 , and 53 . Entering Braintree from the north, I-93, Route 1, and Route 3 all run concurrently as the Southeast Expressway from Boston ; in Braintree they diverge, with Route 3 heading south toward Cape Cod as

1258-449: The town. The population density was 2,434.4 inhabitants per square mile (939.9/km ). There were 12,973 housing units at an average density of 933.6 per square mile (360.5/km ). The racial makeup of the town was 93.96% White , 1.18% Black or African American , 0.11% Native American , 3.14% Asian , 0.03% Pacific Islander , 0.64% from other races , and 0.95% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino people of any race were 1.16% of

1295-468: The towns of Marion , Mattapoisett, and Wareham . As of 2018, the archdiocese had 284 parishes with 617 diocesan priests and 275 permanent deacons. In 2018, the archdiocese estimated that more than 1.9 million Catholics lived within its territory. New England's first settlers were Congregationalists and, in Rhode Island, Baptists . Many of them left England because they were disappointed in

1332-451: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.16. In the town the population was spread out, with 22.5% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 28.9% from 25 to 44, 24.0% from 45 to 64, and 18.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.4 males. The median income for

1369-415: Was the location of the largest Valle's Steak House in the restaurant chain. One of the chain's busiest locations, it was capable of serving over 5,000 customers per day. In 1980, then presidential candidate Ronald Reagan made a campaign speech at a South Shore Chamber of Commerce luncheon held there. Braintree is home to various educational institutions, both private and public. Public education at

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