By FATHER JAMES LENTINI
(Father James Lentini, pastor of Holy Cross Church, Dover, and Immaculate Conception Church, Marydel, Md., shared this message with his parishioners the weekend of Sept. 1-2.)
I start out this week’s column with an excerpt from a...
By HOWARD D. BOYD
The dignity of work and worker rights are among the principles of Catholic social teaching. In furtherance of creation, God trusted us to work to make our world a better place. As such, work is more...
WASHINGTON -- In an Aug. 30 letter to priests in the archdiocese, Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl asked for "forgiveness for my errors in judgment (and) for my inadequacies."
He asked the priests to accept his "contrition for any suffering...
THURLES, Ireland — A New Zealand cardinal told a conference on the future of parishes in Ireland that his diocese benefited from the appointment of church workers known as lay pastoral leaders who exercise many functions that normally would...
August 30, 2018
Dear Friends in Christ,
It is indeed a difficult time to be a Catholic as stories of egregious crimes perpetrated by Catholic priests and cover-ups by the hierarchy leave us heartbroken, disgusted and angry.
The Pennsylvania grand jury report...
ELSMERE – For many students, reading is a skill that comes rather naturally, but others struggle. A lack of reading acumen threatens to leave students behind in all subjects.
In years past, getting the kind of intensive instruction necessary to...
WASHINGTON — Fifty years ago in an act of civil disobedience, Bob Graf and 13 of his friends broke into nine neighboring draft boards in a Milwaukee office building, grabbed thousands of 1-A records of men about to be...
VATICAN CITY — While recent accusations by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano have created tension in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis is approaching the situation calmly, the Vatican secretary of state said.
In an interview posted Aug. 30 by "Vatican Insider,"...
Imagine rolling a pair of dice. You have the greatest probability of rolling the number seven. It has more combinations than any other number. (Actually, six sets of combinations total seven.) Perhaps for this reason the number seven has...
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Cycle B
1) Dt 4:1-2, 6-8
Psalm 15:2-5
2) Jas 1:17-18, 21-22, 27
Gospel: Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
Mysterious
As we listen to the Scripture readings at Mass today, the most difficult patch, I think, may be this portion of the...