BY EFFIE CALDEROLA
My husband and I raised three kids in Alaska.
It was a great place to live, but it was a long way from our families in the Midwest and on the East Coast. So when Christmas rolled around,...
By FATHER JOHN GIROTTI
I couldn’t believe my ears. I had just opened the door to the church and I was hearing strains of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. It was Beethoven being played on a cold December afternoon in a church...
CARTERET, N.J. -- A three-alarm fire that raged through St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church late Nov. 27 left the landmark church on Roosevelt Avenue in Carteret a total loss.
No one was injured in the blaze that sent tongues of...
WASHINGTON — Alternatives to the use of fetal tissue from abortions are already plentiful, asserted one speaker at a Nov. 27 forum on the issue hosted by the Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington.
“There are alternatives that exist that...
Salesianum will play for its first football state championship since 2013 and its eighth overall on Saturday when they meet Sussex Central for the Division I title at Delaware Stadium in Newark. Kickoff is at 1 p.m.
The Sals, who...
VATICAN CITY — People who visit Catholic shrines must find a place of warmth and welcome, as well as good priests who enjoy being with and listening to the faithful, Pope Francis said.
“It is sad,” he said, whenever visitors...
MANCHESTER, England — Catholic bishops have expressed hope that Pope Francis will canonize Blessed John Henry Newman in 2019 after Vatican medics said the inexplicable healing of a U.S. mother was a miracle attributable to his intercession.
The cardinal was...
WASHINGTON -- To hear the voices of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist from Michigan in Washington, the best bet was to listen to them sing at the National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony on the Ellipse...
First Sunday of Advent
Cycle C
1) Jer 33:14-16
Psalm 25:4-5, 8-10, 14
2) 1 Thes 3:12-4:2
Gospel: Lk 21:25-28, 34-36
Signs and wonders
On this first Sunday of Advent, the word of God offers a timely message. For the sights and sounds of the season...
BALTIMORE -- Apparent good Samaritans turned out to be nothing of the sort after allegedly stealing Christmas presents from two Little Sisters of the Poor outside the Costco in Columbia near Baltimore Nov. 26.
Mother Superior Joseph Caroline Beutler and...