Miracles!
One dictionary definition explains a miracle as “a highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment that brings very welcome consequences.”
Some people await great miraculous events such as illnesses healed, families reunited, marriages restored, debts resolved, and other situations...
MILLTOWN — It’s a great time to be a Catholic school teacher — if you like chaos, a prominent youth minister told diocesan educators at the annual Spirituality Day at Saint Mark’s High School on Aug. 26.
“I don’t think...
By FATHER KENNETH DOYLE
Q. How do I explain original sin to a fallen-away Catholic? (He won’t accept anything from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.) He asked me, “Why are people born thousands of years after the fall held...
WASHINGTON -- The 1919 "Bishops' Program for Social Reconstruction" was showcased in this year's Labor Day statement to demonstrate how so many of the issues the bishops touched upon a century ago in the wake of World War I's...
TRENTON, N.J. -- A New Jersey state appeals court allowed a new law permitting assisted suicide to continue, overturning a lower court decision that temporary blocked the law.
A pair of judges ruled Aug. 27 that a state Superior Court...
VATICAN CITY — At a time when conflict and division dominate the world’s headlines, people need to know there are a growing number of important initiatives to promote interreligious dialogue and understanding, Pope Francis said.
The pope welcomed the Abu...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Sustainability is a lesson that even the leader of a green-minded school admits she is learning.
Students at St. Agnes School in Louisville, Ky., took energy surveys of their elementary campus and caught the principal red-, or...
WASHINGTON -- Authorities have arrested a 56-year-old priest from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia who is facing accusations that he stole more than $98,000 from a parish and used some of it to finance what the archdiocese says were "personal...
In a January 2014 address, Pope Francis expressed that he would like women to play a more "capillary and incisive" role in the church and in places where the "most important decisions are adopted."
Since that time, Pope Francis has...
The Catholic Church is the largest global humanitarian network with enormous potential, and therefore responsibility, to address human suffering and complex global challenges. It is also the vehicle through which the Catholic faith is transmitted to nearly 1.3 billion...