BALTIMORE -- Early in the 1995-96 college basketball season, tiny Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland, upset Georgia Tech, a member of the mighty Atlantic Coast Conference.
As was his post-game custom on the road, Coach Jim Phelan called...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has named U.S. Cardinals Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, and James M. Harvey, archpriest of Rome's Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, to be members of the Vatican's supreme court.
The pope...
The Dialog captured eight Catholic press awards, many of them for coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, across multiple print and digital categories in the 2021 Catholic Media Association awards program.
The association includes several hundred member news organizations from the...
In the introduction to her book "Andalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O'Connor" (Paraclete Press, 2020), Angela Alaimo O'Donnell recounts how "at least one reader" asked "whether it is presumptuous ... to assume Flannery O'Connor's inner life"...
In the introduction to her 2014 prose work "Mortal Blessings," poet and educator Angela Alaimo O'Donnell offers this frank observation: "Poetry seemed to be something I could manage on my own. All I needed was a pen, some paper...
ROME (CNS) -- While the U.S. bishops authorized the drafting of a teaching document on the Eucharist and insisted its planned section on "eucharistic consistency" was not aimed at denying Communion to any specific group of people, the bishops'...
WILMINGTON — The midday Mass at the Cathedral of St. Peter on June 18 had a different feel than the normal liturgy. The rector of the cathedral, Father Joseph McQuaide, was there, but he was joined by two of...
The U.S. bishops approved by a wide margin a plan to draft a document to examine the "meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the church" following a lengthy debate during their spring general assembly.
The action to move...
Megan Saienni, a teacher at St. Ann School in Wilmington, shared her thoughts at the end of an historic year of unprecedented education in Catholic schools in the Diocese of Wilmington.
We did it.
So many people said we wouldn’t make...
PHILADELPHIA -- Foster parents for Catholic Social Services of the Philadelphia Archdiocese said the Supreme Court's 9-0 decision June 17 on faith-based child welfare agencies comes as a relief.
The court ruled that the city of Philadelphia may not exclude...