NEWARK – Sixteen students from St. Mark’s High School spent three days in July offering help to the residents of Marydale Retirement Village in Newark. Marydale, run by the Diocese of Wilmington, provides housing for seniors in need and...
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Cycle B
1) 2 Kgs 4:42-44
Psalm 145:10-11, 15-18
2) Eph 4:1-6
Gospel: Jn 6:1-15
Food for the journey
Did you know that the basic order of the Mass, as it is celebrated today, can be traced all the way back...
WASHINGTON -- Pope Francis has said that shepherds "should have the smell of the sheep." For some bishops and their dioceses, that means going on Twitter.
"Bishop (David A.) Zubik (of Pittsburgh) was very clear: If he can meet people...
BOSTON -- Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley said "a major gap still exists" when it comes to the Catholic Church's policies on sexual abuse and conduct as it pertains, not just to priests, but in cases of accusations against...
ASTON, Pa. – Sister Anna Hope Bauerlin, who grew up in Wilmington and was a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 70 years, died July 24 in Crozier Hospital. She was 93.
Sister Hope was...
BOSTON -- Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley called for "three specific actions" to immediately address allegations of sexual abuse of minors and "sexual improprieties" with seminarians made against Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, starting with "a fair and rapid adjudication...
Diocese of Wilmington priest John A. Sarro, under indictment for having sexual intercourse with a minor in the early 1990s, died on Monday at a nursing home, according to diocesan spokesman Robert G. Krebs.
Sarro, 76, had suffered a lengthy...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The presence in the United States of about 3,000 priests and religious from countries in Africa is a great contribution to the U.S., said Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey.
That fact "makes me...
VATICAN CITY — A leading expert on the cloth believed to be the burial shroud of Jesus dismissed a new study claiming that blood patterns on the shroud are not consistent with those left by a crucified person.
In an...
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. — Although Adrian Paz of Denison, Iowa, was pleased that attendance had increased at this year’s Hispanic charismatic congress, real-world issues may have kept some away.
“Word was there might be ICE agents coming today,” he...