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The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University will honor the Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities, based in Wilmington, and a church researcher with two of its highest awards Oct. 16.
Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., chairman of CARA’s board of directors, will present the Richard Cardinal Cushing Medal for the Advancement of Church Research to the Raskob Foundation.
VATICAN CITY — Promoters of the sainthood cause of Pope John Paul I, who served as head of the church for just over a month, met Pope Benedict XVI Sept. 26 to bring him up to date on their work.
Bishop Giuseppe Andrich of Belluno and Feltre, Italy, the diocese in which the late pope was born, and Bishop Enrico Dal Covolo, the postulator or official promoter of the cause, said major documentation on Pope John Paul’s life and ministry would be submitted formally to the Congregation for Saints’ Causes Oct. 17, the 100th anniversary of the late pope’s birth.
Catholic News Service
This is one in a series of stories examining the positions of the major presidential candidates.
WASHINGTON — There are few issues in the 2012 presidential campaign on which the major candidates have more clearly differentiated opinions than health care.
Much of President Barack Obama’s stand on health care is built on provisions of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate, has said should be repealed.
Bishop Malooly ordained Michael J. Stankewicz to the permanent diaconate during a Mass Sept. 15 at St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Hockessin.
The bishop announced at the end of the liturgy that Stankewicz, who leads the diocese’s Catholic Education Department, will conduct his ministry as a deacon at the Hockessin parish.
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY —The pope’s bees had a bittersweet year producing a lower-than-expected yield due to intense summer heat.
The bees live on a 50-acre farm at the papal summer villa in Castel Gandolfo, a small town in the hills southeast of Rome.
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — Religious freedom has been an essential part of the United States since its beginning and is essential to its future, Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl said in a Sept. 13 talk at Georgetown University.
“The voice of faith has served and continues to function as the conscience of society,” the cardinal said in his keynote address.
Staff reporter
Catechetical Sunday is an opportunity for parishes to recognize those who help teach the faith. For some of those teachers in the diocese, being involved in religious education is a way for them to live their faith more deeply and to help shape the future of the church.
For Diana Staley, becoming a catechist was a crucial step in returning to her Catholic faith. She has taught religious education at St. Francis de Sales Parish in Salisbury, Md., for 14 years.
A single mom in Wilmington, who wanted her daughter to attend a Catholic school, couldn’t afford it.
An unemployed father on the Eastern Shore, who had sole custody of his children, was troubled because he wouldn’t be able to pay for his son to attend a Catholic school like he did.
Staff reporter
Wilmington — On a warm Sunday afternoon, the enticing aroma of Italian red sauce wafts out of a plain Knights of Columbus hall into the streets on the edge of Wilmington’s Little Italy.
This Knights hall, at 1801 Lancaster Ave., serves as a meeting place and catering hall most of the time. But on the second and fourth Sunday afternoon of every month, it opens to the public as an Italian restaurant, complete with checkered tablecloths and parmesan cheese shakers on the tables.
Staff reporter
When most people think of foreign-exchange or international students coming to the United States, they picture teenagers from western European countries — Spain, France, Austria or Germany, for example. This year, however, three Catholic high schools in the diocese have turned their sights to the east.
St. Elizabeth High School, Padua Academy and St. Thomas More Academy all have welcomed students from China to their ranks this year. All three are working through the Cambridge Institute of International Education, based in Burlington, Mass.
