ROME-- Punishing and condemning those guilty of abuse is an act of charity, Pope Francis said.
"The abuser is an enemy. Each of us feels this because we empathize with the suffering of the abused," he said during a private...
A new resource for tracking Native residential schools affiliated with the Catholic Church marks a major advance toward healing the wounds of systemic abuse, said one project organizer.
"While there are more steps for the Catholic Church to take to...
Approximately 100 people attended the May procession at St. Hedwig Church in Wilmington on Sunday, May 7.
Children in the religious education program carried a statue of the Blessed Mother around the church corner and participated in the May crowning...
WILMINGTON — Students at St. Ann School in Wilmington gathered May 8 to meet the bishop and a priest from the Diocese of San Marcos, Guatemala, where the Wilmington school has helped its sister school, Santa Ana.
Bishop Bernabé de...
BALTIMORE-- In recent years, a growing awareness of injustice and calls for reform have led to a racial reckoning, with businesses, corporations, nonprofit organizations and institutions across the country reassessing their own complicity with racism in its various forms.
The...
Parish leaders seeking guidance for the National Eucharistic Revival's upcoming parish year now have a 24-page resource to assist their discernment. The "Leader's Playbook," released May 1, helps parishes answer the question "what are we being asked to do?"...
James M. Gebhart, a resident of Newark, will be ordained to the transitional diaconate by Bishop Koenig on Saturday, May 13 at 11 a.m., at his home parish, St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Hockessin.
Gebhart, who will...
Sunday Scripture readings, May 14, 2023,Sixth Sunday of Easter
Acts 8:5-8, 14-17 Ps 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20 1 Pt 3:15-18 Jn 14:15-21
Where is God? Cynics scoff, doubters shrug, but you don’t have to look far for an answer
A few...
MILLTOWN — Saint Mark’s had held the Cape Henlopen baseball team scoreless for five innings on May 9, but they still needed six outs to beat the defending state champions. Cape scored three times in the sixth to cut...
Questioned by the confreres of a Hungarian Jesuit kidnapped with another priest and imprisoned during Argentina's murderous military dictatorship, Pope Francis said, "I did what I felt I had to do to defend them. It was a very painful...