TROIS-RIVIERES, Quebec — Auxiliary Bishop Pierre-Olivier Tremblay of Trois-Rivieres now is Quebec’s youngest bishop and probably the geekiest.
On July 22, Bishop Tremblay was ordained at Notre-Dame-du-Cap Basilica, Canada’s largest Marian shrine, where the 47-year-old prelate has been rector for...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. ambassador to the Holy See told a Washington audience July 24 that “promoting and securing religious freedom as a human right is a shared priority” of the Vatican and the United States.
Ambassador Callista Gingrich joined...
VATICAN CITY — The last time a pope visited Ireland, the Constitution prohibited divorce, gay marriages were unthinkable, abortion was illegal and physical and sexual abuse at the hands of nuns and priests was a carefully hidden secret.
That has...
WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that denied the religious freedom arguments of a Pennsylvania religious order that sought to block a natural gas line from the sisters' land because it violated their faith...
NEWARK – Sixteen students from St. Mark’s High School spent three days in July offering help to the residents of Marydale Retirement Village in Newark. Marydale, run by the Diocese of Wilmington, provides housing for seniors in need and...
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Cycle B
1) 2 Kgs 4:42-44
Psalm 145:10-11, 15-18
2) Eph 4:1-6
Gospel: Jn 6:1-15
Food for the journey
Did you know that the basic order of the Mass, as it is celebrated today, can be traced all the way back...
WASHINGTON -- Pope Francis has said that shepherds "should have the smell of the sheep." For some bishops and their dioceses, that means going on Twitter.
"Bishop (David A.) Zubik (of Pittsburgh) was very clear: If he can meet people...
BOSTON -- Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley said "a major gap still exists" when it comes to the Catholic Church's policies on sexual abuse and conduct as it pertains, not just to priests, but in cases of accusations against...
ASTON, Pa. – Sister Anna Hope Bauerlin, who grew up in Wilmington and was a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 70 years, died July 24 in Crozier Hospital. She was 93.
Sister Hope was...
BOSTON -- Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley called for "three specific actions" to immediately address allegations of sexual abuse of minors and "sexual improprieties" with seminarians made against Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, starting with "a fair and rapid adjudication...