Imagine rolling a pair of dice. You have the greatest probability of rolling the number seven. It has more combinations than any other number. (Actually, six sets of combinations total seven.) Perhaps for this reason the number seven has...
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Cycle B
1) Dt 4:1-2, 6-8
Psalm 15:2-5
2) Jas 1:17-18, 21-22, 27
Gospel: Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
Mysterious
As we listen to the Scripture readings at Mass today, the most difficult patch, I think, may be this portion of the...
MILLTOWN – Catholic school officials are kidding themselves if they believe they can keep the status quo and expect to be around in a few decades, a former high school administrator and campus minister told educators in Wilmington on...
WASHINGTON -- After recent reports describing clergy sex abuse, Paul Peloquin, a Catholic clinical psychologist and a clergy abuse survivor, shared advice for victims and their families.
"For Catholics who have been abused by a priest or clergy, it's doubly...
WASHINGTON — Nearly a year ago, Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico as a category 4 storm, and afterward 11-year-old Marco Lebron’s first thought was about the monks who teach at his school, Benedictine-run San Antonio Abad School and...
WILMINGTON – St. Ann Parish is home for Pat Butler Grant and her family. She and her husband, Jim, have been members for decades, and their two children, Colleen and Sheila, attended the parish school. Grant joined the school...
WASHINGTON -- Several American bishops responded quickly upon hearing of the charges leveled by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former Vatican ambassador to the United States, that church leaders -- including Pope Francis -- had been told years ago...
MEDELLIN, Colombia — The Catholic Church in Latin America must return to the principles of a 1968 conference that shifted the church’s emphasis toward the poor majority, said participants in a four-day meeting in Medellin, Colombia.
“If we don’t capture...
WASHINGTON -- More committees are not the answer to stop the abuse of children and vulnerable adults by clergy, said an Aug. 28 statement by the National Review Board, which is charged with addressing clerical sexual misconduct in the...
Bishop Malooly spent part of the day Aug. 28 touring facilities in Wilmington sponsored by the Ministry of Caring.
The bishop started the morning with a trip to the Child Care Center on N. Jackson Street where he was greeted...