VATICAN CITY -- The suspension of public Masses in Italy is a painful yet necessary measure to protect people's health, the country's bishops said.
"This is a very restrictive step, the acceptance of which causes suffering and difficulty for pastors,...
Each year in the days before Lent, my husband and I share a list of what we plan to give up that year. Last year, it took just a few moments for him to start to rattle off an...
"We must love with our eyes open," Canterbury's Archbishop Justin Welby said last October. Saints, the Anglican leader advised, are people who are able to face and to confront "the entanglements of life."
Archbishop Welby spoke during an ecumenical vespers...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis did not recite the Sunday Angelus from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square March 8, but he did go to the window to wave and to bless the pilgrims who showed...
Three Catholic schools remain among the eight still fighting for the girls basketball state championship. Archmere, St. Elizabeth and Padua will all take the court Monday night at 7 p.m. in the quarterfinals of the DIAA tournament. The champion...
St. Clare of Assisi was one of the first women Franciscans and founder of a worldwide order of contemplative sisters, choosing to leave a comfortable, wealthy life behind to live one of poverty and prayer.
Clare was born into a...
"A lot," my mom said. "A whole lot." And she went back to washing the dishes.
I shrugged and laughed, and pressed her for an actual answer.
"Honestly, I don’t know, Katie. I’d have to sit down and do the math....
St. Perpetua, a noblewoman, and St. Felicity, a slave, were bound together in death when they were executed for the crime of being Christian in the early days of the Church.
What sets them apart from other martyrs is that...
WILMINGTON — Michelle Kozicki scored eight of Padua's first 10 points in the sixth-seeded Pandas' second-round matchup with Polytech in the DIAA girls basketball tournament on March 6. That was just a sample of things to come, as the...
Born in an era between the voyages of Columbus and the Protestant Reformation, St. Teresa of Avila seemed destined from birth to have a prominent place in history.
Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada was born in Avila, Spain, on March...