Ruth Pakaluk with her husband and five of their children. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Pakaluk family National Catholic Register, Nov 19, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). To kids in the neighborhood east of Interstate 290 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Ruth Pakaluk was the mom who baked brownies and blondies for everyone after school and whose home was the starting point for games and fun.“She was like the ‘block mom,’” her husband, Michael Pakaluk, an author and professor at the…

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