Pledges to the Annual Catholic Appeal topped the $5-million mark for the third straight year, with more than five months left for gifts to be made.
The $5,146,545 in gifts thus far represents 110 percent of the 2018 Annual Catholic...
By GINA CHRISTIAN
"One of my parishioners told me he's deleted 40 contacts from his cellphone since February," my priest friend said. "All of them died from drug overdoses in the last six months."
Sorrow and weariness dulled my friend's gentle...
Prayers for vocations are being answered in the Diocese of Wilmington as one of the larger groups of men in recent years prepared to enter their first year of the seminary, according to Father Norman Carroll, diocesan director of...
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Cycle B
1) Jer 23:1-6
Psalm 23:1-6
2) Eph 2:13-18
Gospel: Mk 6:30-34
A royal mess
In today's first reading, Jeremiah promises that God will send a new king, a new "shepherd," to his people. In the Gospel, Mark signals the...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis added an Italian teenager to the list of people he will formally recognize as saints Oct. 14 during the monthlong meeting of the world Synod of Bishops on young people.
During an "ordinary public consistory"...
NAPA, Calif. -- Americans continue to pursue "this ridiculous path" of "unlinking sex and marriage and kids, while calling what is actually falling apart 'flying,'" said one of America's foremost Catholic feminist thinkers.
"All the while (they're) hurtling toward a...
BRANDYWINE HUNDRED – George Leidy may not be coaching at St. Edmond’s Academy any longer, but the impact he made during nearly four decades as a volunteer at the all-boys school is hard to miss. The floor in one...
VATICAN CITY -- With large sheets of plain plywood blocking public access to the Holy Stairs, one woman lovingly touched a large color photograph of the stairs, made the sign of the cross, lowered her head and prayed.
For centuries,...
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...
PHILADELPHIA -- A federal judge has swept away claims of religious discrimination by plaintiffs including Catholic Social Services of the Philadelphia Archdiocese and ruled the church agency must provide home assessments for same-sex couples wishing to provide foster care...