BALTIMORE -- More than eight centuries ago, St. Francis of Assisi and two companions randomly opened a prayer book three times inside their parish church of St. Nicolo in Italy.
Hoping God would send them a message, the wealthy young...
The Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation and the "Goals & Assists Scholarship Fund" presented a grant of $500,000 to Neumann University on Jan. 30. Neumann is the first Catholic college selected by Snider Hockey for a scholarship gift.
The grant...
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican donated thousands of protective masks to several Chinese provinces affected by the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus.
In an email to Catholic News Service Feb. 3, the Vatican press office confirmed a report that appeared...
A Mass to observe the World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life was Feb. 1 at Holy Family Church in Newark. Bishop Malooly joined religious women and men of the Diocese of Wilmington at the service sponsored by the...
"Lord, if you could just tell us what to do, like, now ... that would be much appreciated."
It was a dark and rainy Friday evening in Rockville, Maryland, when my husband and I prayed for an answer to the...
The calendar has reached February, which means a few things. High school basketball teams have just over three weeks to earn enough points to get into the state tournament or to solidify a spot. Wrestlers and swimmers will be...
TORONTO -- Mary Higgins Clark, known as the "queen of suspense" to her millions of readers throughout the world, died of natural causes in Naples, Florida, Jan. 31. She was 92.
The author of more than 50 novels, the popular...
In 1949, famed Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes celebrated Negro History Week (the precursor to Black History Month) with members of the Oblate Sisters of Providence and their students at the all black and Catholic St. Alphonsus School in...
I must have been in the third or fourth grade when I first heard about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. In our rural parish the bishop came every three years and children in third, fourth and fifth grade...
ELKTON, Md. – Immaculate Conception School will close its doors for the final time in June, falling victim to rising costs and dwindling enrollment, the parish pastor and school principal confirmed in a letter to parents Jan. 31.
The parish...