PRINCESS ANNE, Md. – Catholic Charities has expanded its housing services to Somerset and Wicomico counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore with satellite offices in Crisfield and Salisbury.
The offices allow residents of the two counties to seek homeless prevention and...
ROME -- Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former nuncio to the United States who called on Pope Francis to resign for allegedly lifting sanctions placed on Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, now says those "sanctions" were "private" and neither he...
WARWICK, Md. -- Bishop Malooly celebrated morning Mass Sept. 1 at St. Francis Xavier Shrine (Old Bohemia), the mother church of the Diocese of Wilmington, as part of the yearlong sesquicentennial celebration for the diocese.
The bishop told more than...
WILMINGTON – Collaboration and flexibility are the names of the game in education these days, and St. Anthony of Padua is one diocesan elementary school to join the party this summer. The Wilmington school has transformed its library so...
By FATHER JAMES LENTINI
(Father James Lentini, pastor of Holy Cross Church, Dover, and Immaculate Conception Church, Marydel, Md., shared this message with his parishioners the weekend of Sept. 1-2.)
I start out this week’s column with an excerpt from a...
By HOWARD D. BOYD
The dignity of work and worker rights are among the principles of Catholic social teaching. In furtherance of creation, God trusted us to work to make our world a better place. As such, work is more...
WASHINGTON -- In an Aug. 30 letter to priests in the archdiocese, Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl asked for "forgiveness for my errors in judgment (and) for my inadequacies."
He asked the priests to accept his "contrition for any suffering...
THURLES, Ireland — A New Zealand cardinal told a conference on the future of parishes in Ireland that his diocese benefited from the appointment of church workers known as lay pastoral leaders who exercise many functions that normally would...
August 30, 2018
Dear Friends in Christ,
It is indeed a difficult time to be a Catholic as stories of egregious crimes perpetrated by Catholic priests and cover-ups by the hierarchy leave us heartbroken, disgusted and angry.
The Pennsylvania grand jury report...
ELSMERE – For many students, reading is a skill that comes rather naturally, but others struggle. A lack of reading acumen threatens to leave students behind in all subjects.
In years past, getting the kind of intensive instruction necessary to...