DUBLIN -- Behavioral scientists and cybercrime experts talked to families about how digital distraction, pornography and the "online echo chamber" impact their lives, during one of the first panels at the international World Meeting of Families.
Pornography in particular has...
DUBLIN -- Cardinal Kevin Farrell, head of the Vatican's Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life, said the church needs God to help it build bridges, to communicate and to help it understand that "we need to speak to...
By DEACON ANDREW J. DE SILVA
This commentary titled "Why I want to be a Catholic priest" was written by Deacon Andrew J. De Silva, a seminarian who is slated to be ordained a priest in May 2019 for the...
MUNJOR, Kan. -- Growing up in Munjor, and later Hays, fraternal twins Amber and Brianna Wooldridge were used to celebrating milestones together.
From their baptism and their birthday to first Communion, confirmation and graduation, pictures and home videos tell the...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis blamed "clericalism" in the Catholic Church for creating a culture where criminal abuse was widespread and extraordinary efforts were made to keep the crimes hidden.
Throughout his pontificate, Pope Francis has targeted clericalism as an...
Wonder Woman may have helped Joanna Wicks advance to the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, but the reigning Miss Delaware will rely on a higher power to help her stay calm during that competition.
Wicks, 24, speed-painted Wonder Woman...
BENEDICT, Ore. — Tyrant Cascadian Dark Ale and the less-forebodingly dubbed St. Benedict Farmhouse Ale will be among the beers crafted not at the trendiest Portland brewery but on the peaceful, prayer-suffused land of Mount Angel Abbey.
The abbey’s Benedictine...
Delaware Veterans Post One completed its run to the American Legion World Series baseball championship Tuesday night in Shelby, N.C., with a 1-0 win in eight innings over Nevada Post 40 out of Las Vegas. It was the first...
WASHINGTON -- Some victims of clergy sex abuse and their supporters are calling on federal and state entities to investigate sex abuse within the Catholic Church and root out abusers and anyone who has protected them.
Members of the Survivors...
BOGOTA, Colombia — Asiangelis Guevara sat at the dining room table at a shelter for migrants, sipping hot chocolate, holding her year-old son and encouraging him to eat a piece of bread.
He gripped the food, but just stared back...