The Dialog
Fasting from food is one thing, but in Austria people once fasted from entertainment during Lent, according to Father Michael Witczak.
“In past times, Carnival would includes plays and concerts from Epiphany to Ash Wednesday,” said Father Witczak,...
Today's Readings from the USCCB:
usccb.org/bible/readings/021418.cfm
"Ash Wednesday is full of joy... The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust."
— Thomas Merton
Dialog reporter
WILMINGTON – St. Mark's boys basketball team, with memories of last week's five-overtime loss to Salesianum fresh in its mind, needed to keep its focus on the task at hand Feb. 13. That was a late-afternoon tilt at...
Dialog reporter
WILMINGTON – Salesianum established an early lead in its basketball game against Mount Pleasant on Feb. 13, and each time the Green Knights appeared to be ready to take over, the Sals came up with a big play...
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY -- Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope just a few days after telling the College of Cardinals that the Catholic Church faced a clear choice between being a church that "goes out" or a...
Catholic News Service
ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan -- As Syria's war soon enters its eighth year, many decry the recent dangerous escalation in the conflict, whether in the country's north, between Turkey and the Kurds, or in the south, between...
From "Les Miserables" to "Pippin," from "Addams Family" to "Godspell" to "Frogs," stage performers and support staff have been working overtime to perfect second semester high school productions that begin as early as mid-February.
Readers become accustomed to reading about...
TRENTON, N.J. -- Superstorm Sandy-weary diocesan and parish officials lauded a Federal Emergency Management Agency policy change announced earlier this year that reverses a prior exclusion for religious organizations and houses of worship from applying for federal aid to...
NEW YORK -- The case involving the transfer of the remains of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen from New York to Peoria, Illinois, has been sent back to the original court by the New York Court of Appeals for an...
Dialog reporter
WILMINGTON – A diocese’s sesquicentennial happens only once, and the Diocese of Wilmington is making sure the anniversary is marked in a prominent manner.
The Diocese of Wilmington will begin a yearlong celebration of its 150th anniversary beginning March...