PHILADELPHIA — Parties, cookie exchanges, family get-togethers and that bowl of Christmas candy on your co-worker's desk can all weigh heavily on the scale at this time of year.
According to a 2016 study by Cornell University and Finland's Tampere...
GLASGOW – Gabby Liberio took an inbounds pass from Aubrey Ennis and laid in the winning field goal as time expired as Upper Darby (Pa.) edged St. Mark's, 52-51, in girls basketball at the Dragon Winter Classic at Glasgow...
VATICAN CITY -- Christmas will not be authentic if people get caught up in a frenzy of shopping, presents and meals, all while ignoring the poor and forgetting who the celebration is really all about, Pope Francis said.
"If Christmas...
DUBLIN — Although Ireland's new abortion law takes effect Jan. 1, by mid-December only 8 percent of family doctors had signed up to provide the terminations.
Irish President Michael D. Higgins signed the legislation into law Dec. 20, paving the...
VATICAN CITY — Acknowledging the gravity of the clerical sexual abuse crisis, Pope Francis told members of the Roman Curia that the church's strength does not depend on its members' perfection, but on the willingness to recognize its failings...
ASTON, Pa. – Sister Ursula Tisdall, who ministered for 22 years in the Diocese of Wilmington, died Dec. 13 in Assisi House. She was 85 and had been a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia...
AMMAN, Jordan — Several Mideast-based Christians working on the Syria crisis have joined a growing chorus about U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pull some 2,000 American troops from Syria. They say it puts Christians at risk and could...
CHICAGO (CNS) — A preliminary report released Dec. 19 by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan shows clergy sexual abuse of minors in the state to be "significantly more extensive" than what the state's dioceses had previously reported, it said.
In...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Delegations from the Vatican and from Vietnam reported continued progress in their discussions, including agreeing on "upgrading" relations with a permanent papal representative "in the near future," a Vatican press statement said.
"They shared the belief...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (CNS) -- Some people wear their faith on their sleeve, others on their feet, which is hardly sacrilegious. It is in fact, Sock Religious.
Catholic socks are a rarity, but images like Mary, Pope Francis, St. Teresa...