NEW YORK -- Now is the time to remember "the core principles we used to know and live by and that we now seem to have forgotten," according to retired Marine Gen. James Mattis.
The former secretary of defense said...
WASHINGTON -- The sun shone on Catholic Charities, literally, Oct. 17 as Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory blessed a solar array installed on five acres of the agency's land surrounding the Missionaries of Charity's Gift of Peace home.
About half...
NAIROBI, Kenya -- A Catholic priest who disappeared from his family home was found dead in a shallow grave in southeastern Kenya a week after he was reported missing.
Police investigators and pathologists Oct. 16 exhumed the body of Father...
Who was Padre Pio? Padre Pio is a saint in the Catholic Church. He was born on May 25, 1887 in Pietrelcina, Italy. Although he was born into a poor family, he was not poor in his faith. His...
WILMINGTON — Ursuline and Wilmington Charter traded wins in the first two sets of their volleyball match on Oct. 17, but the Raiders pulled away in the third and took command in the fourth, leaving the Charter School of...
MILLTOWN — Saint Mark’s volleyball team remained the lone unbeaten in Delaware on Oct. 17, defeating Appoquinimink, 3-0. The big news for the evening came late in the first set, when Spartans senior Savannah Seemans celebrated a milestone moment.
With...
The ministry of Catholic Cemeteries began at the foot of the cross on Good Friday when the disciples of Jesus arranged for his burial in a tomb donated by Joseph of Arimathea for this purpose.
The ministry continued on Easter...
AMMAN, Jordan — Humanitarian concerns are growing as people caught in the crosshairs of the Turkish incursion into northeastern Syria try to flee for safety, and groups are scrambling to aid them.
“There are big concerns about what is going...
LONDON — The Chicago mother healed from a potentially lethal haemorrhage at the intercession of St. John Henry Newman has described his canonization as “the experience of a thousand lifetimes.”
Melissa Villalobos attended the Oct. 13 ceremony at the Vatican...
Sunday Scripture readings, Oct. 20, 2019
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1) Ex 17:8-13
Psalm 121:1-8
2) 2 Tm 3:14-4:2
Gospel: Lk 18:1-8
Words and the Word both have great power
Some 40 years ago, Daniel Everett mastered what is perhaps one of the only human...