The church in the Diocese of Wilmington does a lot of things well, but there are areas that need to be improved to make it a more welcoming institution, according to a report compiled after months of information-gathering ahead...
First person account written by Renée Roden and James Murphy for Catholic News Service
It was around 6 p.m. on a Monday night, and as we walked the final stretch of our nine-mile hike to St. James Catholic Church, we...
ST. LOUIS -- With a focus on social justice, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious concluded its annual general assembly with an eye on the issues that will guide its commitments for the next three years and a celebration...
WASHINGTON -- St. Anthony Catholic School in Northeast Washington has been vandalized twice in less than a week in what the principal of the school is calling "a hate crime."
"When they tore up benches out front, that was vandalism,"...
WASHINGTON -- Bianca Jagger counts herself among the thousands of Nicaraguan Catholics in constant vigil for news about detained Bishop José Álvarez, who has been under house arrest in northern Nicaragua with 11 companions since Aug. 4.
Like other Nicaraguans...
The Naamans Little League baseball all-stars, a team of 11- and 12-year-old boys from north Wilmington, saw their quest for a berth in the Little League World Series come to an end on Aug. 12 in Bristol, Conn., with...
NEWPORT, Mich. -- As Karen Flint pulls into the St. Charles Borromeo parking lot in Newport, it's pitch black, and the sun won't rise for another two hours.
The main parking lot lights are turned off so as not to...
DETROIT -- It was 3 a.m. during a parish-sponsored retreat, and Marie Wilkie of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in Farmington Hills, Michigan, was in her pajamas, drowsily sitting before the exposed Blessed Sacrament in the chapel.
Wilkie wasn't very...
Q. Who is a better person? Someone who attends Mass every Sunday and receives Communion but is not nice to people (rude, insulting, doesn't help the poor)? Or someone who attends Mass sporadically but is a kind, considerate and...
Landmark legislation to address climate change, reduce prescription drug costs and establish a minimum tax on large corporations once thought dead but was suddenly passed by the Senate is being hailed by Catholic advocates.
"It's a minor miracle that it...