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BALTIMORE -- In an opening address Aug. 7 at the 136th annual Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention, the organizations' CEO, Carl Anderson, spoke of the charitable works of the Knights, their ongoing pro-life commitment and pledge to support persecuted...
WASHINGTON – A new study by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University surveyed men and women religious superiors in the United States about the possibility of ordaining women to the diaconate and found that...
Sr. Gianna Maria professed her solemn vows as a Sister of Life on Aug. 6, the Feast of the Transfiguration, at the Basilica of St. John the Evangelist in Stamford, Conn. The celebrant and homilist was Archbishop Charles J. Brown,...
Father William Graney, the pastor of Resurrection Parish in the Diocese of Wilmington, has been released from the hospital after last week's assault upon him by a man police said he was trying to help. Father Graney was attacked July...
PITTSBURGH -- Once it is released, a grand jury report on a months-long investigation into abuse claims in six Pennsylvania dioceses covering a 70-year span "will be a sad and tragic description of events that occurred within the church,"...
Father Mark Mealey, judicial vicar for the Diocese of Wilmington, will offer annulment information nights at two locations in September. The first will be Sept. 20, 7 p.m., at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, 345 Bear-Christina Road, Bear, Del. Another...
Bishop Malooly is urging Catholics in the Diocese of Wilmington to join “Call to Prayer,” an initiative of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that seeks a fair and open nomination process for the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme...
Sitting in eucharistic adoration at Holy Family Catholic Church in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, Linda Fahnlander asked God one question, "Do you want us to homeschool?" She heard an immediate "yes." Catholic families choose to homeschool their children for the flexibility...
When lessons are first taught at Our Lady's Montessori School in Kansas, City, Kansas, they're given without words. Near the classroom's water source in the "practical life area," a teacher pours quietly and offers the child a turn, "Would you...
Any parent who ever grappled with the "new" math knows that education often falls victim to the latest trend. But one growing trend in Catholic education is actually taking students back to what's enduring and unchanging, according to Catherine Neumayr,...