Brenda Burns, a member of St. Joseph’s Parish on French Street in Wilmington, has been appointed the director of the Ministry for Black Catholics. Bishop Malooly announced the appointment on Oct. 15. Burns succeeds Franciscan Father Paul Williams, who...
DICKSON, Tenn. -- When Dan Schachle told folks at the Knights' Supreme Council in New Haven, Connecticut, about his son Mikey's cure in utero and his birth, they asked if they could inform those working on Father Michael J....
Pope Francis, in his new encyclical "Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship," explores what it means to be a good neighbor. Reflecting on the parable of the good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), the pope explains the importance of caring...
The social encyclical Pope Francis released in October extends a formidable challenge to us all, the challenge to create "a different culture." What kind of culture? It is the kind where people who basically are indifferent toward each other...
Repeating a call first made by St. Paul VI, Pope Francis urged a global move to divert money from national military spending and use it to "definitely defeat hunger."
Addressing representatives of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Oct. 16,...
VATICAN CITY -- The collection taken up in parishes around the globe on World Mission Sunday is "as unique as it is rare" because offerings are made by Catholics in the richest and poorest nations, a Vatican official said.
"It...
WASHINGTON — A new presidential poll issued Oct. 15 by the Pew Research Center shows Catholic former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, ahead by 10 percentage points, 52%-42%, over the Republican incumbent, President Donald Trump.
But Pew, unlike...
INDIANAPOLIS — Annie Burford smiles when she sees the pinwheels twirling in the afternoon breeze, forming a multicolor celebration of life.
As a respiratory clinical specialist for Franciscan Health, Burford delights in knowing that each of the 466 pinwheels represents...
WASHINGTON -- Michaela Gallagher was a 16-year-old volunteer at the Little Sisters of the Poor Jeanne Jugan Residence for the elderly poor in Somerville, Massachusetts, when she witnessed a human die for the first time in her young life.
Gallagher...
ASTON, Pa. – Sister Margaret St. John Brocato, a professed Sister of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 71 years, died in Assisi House on Oct. 14. She was 92 and ministered in the Diocese of Education for 12 years.
Sister...