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CHILDS, Md. — School had recessed for the summer the week prior, but that wasn’t enough to keep 16 Mount Aviat Academy students from returning for STREAM Camp with teacher Erin Dymowski. STREAM includes science, technology, religion, engineering, arts...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis named six superiors of women's religious orders, a consecrated laywoman and the superior of the De La Salle Christian Brothers to be full members of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies...
St. Edmond Parish in Rehoboth held their annual Corpus Christi procession from the church to the boardwalk on Sunday, June 23 after the 10:30 a.m. Mass. Fathers William Coco and John Solomon, along with Deacons Dan Ackerson and Jim...
PEORIA, Ill. -- As Bonnie Engstrom watched lifesaving measures being taken for her son, who had been born just moments before without a pulse or drawing breath, she asked for help from the person whose prayerful support she had...
VATICAN CITY -- Christians are called to follow the spirit of the beatitudes by comforting the poor and the oppressed, especially migrants and refugees who are rejected, exploited and left to die, Pope Francis said. The least ones, "who have...
WASHINGTON  -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agreed in a July 1 court filing to postpone implementation of a new conscience protection rule "because it is the most efficient way to adjudicate the final rule on...
PEORIA, Ill.  -- With "overwhelming joy," Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria announced July 6 that Pope Francis had approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. "Now that the miracle has been confirmed by Pope...
CINCINNATI -- A federal judge July 3 granted a preliminary injunction blocking an Ohio ban on abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected. Judge Michael Barrett of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio said in 12-page...
Divine providence names how God interacts with us and our universe: "God cares for all, from the least things to the great events of the world and its history" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 303). Yet this belief in...
What does God do the whole day long? Sure, it's a mystery. But God hardly is sleeping, resting far from the complex, often painful realities of our lives. Does it sound plausible that God's presence in our world could...