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CatholicPhilly.com PHILADELPHIA -- Dreams do come true. Faithful fans of the Philadelphia Eagles, who captured their first Super Bowl championship Feb. 4, also captured the hearts of up to 2 million people who packed the row-house-lined streets and grand boulevards of...
Dialog reporter CHESTER, Pa. – This time of year, high school seniors are busy with any number of pursuits. Picking a college, looking forward to a prom and booking a house in Dewey Beach for Senior Week are just a...
Dialog reporter HOCKESSIN – The St. Elizabeth boys' basketball team showed up at Sanford School on the afternoon of Feb. 8 to face a Warriors team that had won 10 straight after opening the season 1-4. But the team on...
Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY  -- A Vatican court found two former top managers of the Vatican bank liable for mismanagement and ordered an injunction for them to pay damages. The sentence was announced Feb. 6 by the bank, formally known...
  Catholic News Service WASHINGTON  -- Saying the time had come to "right a wrong," Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl blessed and dedicated commemorative bronze plaques honoring unknown enslaved men, women and children buried throughout the Archdiocese of Washington. Washington's archbishop sprinkled holy...
 Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY  -- Though not as fast as a speeding bullet, "Superpope" will fly across the world, gathering autographs of sports stars and eventually being auctioned off to raise money for the pope's charity.  The initiative kicked off...
  Catholic News Service Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time      Cycle B      1) Lv 13:1-2, 44-46      Psalm 32:1-2, 5, 11      2) 1 Cor 10:31 - 11-1      Gospel: Mk 1:40-45  'Make me clean' Chances are most of us struggle to...
Catholic News Service WASHINGTON  -- A group of priests, religious, young immigrants and their supporters gathered outside of the U.S. Capitol Feb. 6 to pray for the Dreamers, whose lives are in limbo, and for the legislators who have the...
For Catholic News Service On the morning before the Philadelphia Eagles won their first Super Bowl in franchise history, Catholics at Mass on the fifth Sunday in ordinary Time, Feb. 4, heard the story of Job. How fitting for this long-suffering...
WASHINGTON -- On the first day of National Marriage Week Feb. 7-14, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced the launch of a new mobile-responsive ForYourMarriage.org website. "I hope this new platform will reach many more people with the message...