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By LAURA KELLY FANUCCI "This is our night for telling stories." The priest moved slowly through the shivering crowd, huddled around a roaring fire on the steps of the church, bracing ourselves against the biting wind. "This is our night for telling...
VATICAN CITY -- A draft of the proposed apostolic constitution for reforming and governing the Roman Curia will soon be sent out to leaders of the world's bishops' conferences, religious orders and some pontifical universities for their observations and...
Quotes of the Day: “We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.” ― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock "The person who has surrendered himself entirely to sin indulges with enjoyment...
GREENVILLE – The top-ranked Salesianum lacrosse team found itself in unfamiliar territory on April 9. The Sals were playing their first in-state team in Appoquinimink, and the Jaguars had a 3-1 lead late in the first quarter. But the...
CLAYMONT – The first two-plus innings of baseball between Archmere and Conrad were on April 9 were scoreless. Mike Dellose changed that with one mighty swing of his bat. Dellose, a lefty, cleared the bases with a no-doubt-about-it grand slam...
CLAYMONT – Conrad scored five runs in the third inning and six in the fourth to open up what had been a two-run game on the way to a 15-1 win at Archmere in Diamond State Athletic Conference softball...
Q. I love children, and I know that babies will cry at inopportune times. That said, I am puzzled at the young parents in our parish who allow their children to cry loudly in church for extended periods of...
WASHINGTON — In the quest to bring her deported Mexican husband, Marcos, back to the United States to live with her and their four children, Elizabeth Perez has frequently turned to prayer. Nothing else has worked. “My faith is the only...
ASUNCION, Paraguay — It does not matter if it is in a demonstration against the International Monetary Fund or to support a small displaced indigenous community, Spanish Jesuit Francisco de Paula Oliva, 90, will be there. Dressed in white shirt,...
VATICAN CITY — Ten years after Pope Benedict XVI established personal ordinariates for Catholics coming from the Anglican tradition, the Vatican has issued a slightly updated set of norms governing them. The updated “complementary norms” include a provision Pope Francis...