NEWARK — For nearly eight decades, the Felician Sisters served the Newark community, first with Our Lady of Grace orphanage and later a kindergarten on approximately 180 acres along Route 4. The sisters left the site in 2014, but...
WASHINGTON -- Catholics joined an array of faith communities, human rights groups, clergy, refugees and refugee resettlement agencies gathered outside the U.S. Capitol Oct. 15 protesting deep cuts to the refugee admissions program.
Some shouted "Jesus was a refugee" toward...
There is an old New Yorker cartoon that shows an angel bringing God a stack of petitions about wars, natural disasters and other calamities. God waves him off with a distracted, "Not now. I’m trying to help this guy...
CLAYMONT — In one of the volleyball season’s most anticipated matches, Archmere and Conrad did not disappoint. The Red Wolves scratched out a win in the first set, only to see the Auks come back to take the next...
WILMINGTON — Wilmington Charter’s field hockey team scored 10 minutes into the first half, and that was enough in a defensive battle with Ursuline. The Force, after a late goal, defeated the Raiders, 2-0.
Prior to Charter’s first goal, it...
NEW ORLEANS -- From his elevated perch on the shoeshine stand near Concourse C of Louis Armstrong International Airport -- a nondescript wooden platform with two blue-padded chairs and four metal footrests -- Wayne Kendrick notices everything and everyone.
He...
You’re having a dinner party.
You’re in the kitchen. The pasta water’s boiling, the salad needs tossing, the table needs setting. The guests have arrived, and you need to keep things popping.
So where’s your sister, the co-host? She’s discovered that...
BY FATHER KENNETH DOYLE
Q. I am a widow going out now with a widower. We love each other and he wants me to marry him. Can we get married in the church, keep our own names and not be...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Firearm attacks have changed society in the United States as mass shootings have become more frequent and the people are forced to face the psychological consequences, often silently.
More than half of American adults consider mass shootings...
VATICAN CITY — Told that some people think Pope Francis isn’t exactly a fan of the rosary, Jesuit Father Federic Fornos practically shouted, “What?”
“Pope Francis says the rosary is the prayer of his heart. He prays it every day,”...