Today's meditation is a simple one from St. Francis de Sales, patron of our diocese and patron of Catholic journalists: "During the night we must wait for the light." Good Friday may be the "night" but our faith tells...
WILMINGTON — Tyler Kulp, the principal of Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic School in Charlotte, North Carolina, will join the Diocese of Wilmington in July as associate superintendent of schools. The appointment was made by Bishop Koenig.
Kulp will...
Holy Saturday is one of those days when the church, though liturgically silent, speaks volumes through signs. In Poland and Ukraine, one of the most popular and deeply symbolic gestures is the blessing of Easter foods, known as "swieconka,"...
VATICAN CITY -- Especially in a Jubilee Year, but also every day, priests are called to continual conversion so that they can authentically preach the good news of hope, Pope Francis wrote in the homily he prepared for the...
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
• Road to Emmaus
In the Gospel for the afternoon Mass on Easter Sunday, we hear St. Luke’s account of the two disciples encountering the risen Christ on the road to Emmaus. At first the...
VATICAN CITY -- U.S. Vice President JD Vance will be in Rome April 18 and has meetings planned with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, his office said.
Although the visit...
One popular devotion is the Divine Mercy Chaplet, often said at 3 p.m. in honor of the hour Christ died. Using a rosary, Catholics can pray the chaplet using the following prayers:
• Optional opening prayer: "You expired, Jesus, but...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis personally thanked the health care workers and medical staff who cared for him in Rome's Gemelli hospital for 38 days while he recovered from respiratory infections.
"Thank you, thank you above all for what you...
VATICAN CITY -- The Gospel contains a great message of hope, "because it tells us that wherever we are lost and however we are lost, God always comes looking for us!" said the text for Pope Francis' weekly general...
My younger brother was gay.
He found a haven and a career in New York City, but never spoke of his sexuality to our mother, even though she knew, and they loved each other very much. Before he died, Bill...