I was bustling around the house when the phone rang.
Morning multitasking consumed me: making the bed, grinding coffee beans, getting dressed for a doctor's appointment, dashing out to the curb with the trash before the garbage trucks trundled down...
By TONY MAGLIANO
On July 25, 1968 – in the midst of the “sexual revolution” which aggressively promoted premarital sex, pornography, homosexual activity and artificial contraception – Pope Paul VI with the courage of a prophet gave the Catholic Church...
PHILADELPHIA (CNS) -- The remains of St. Katharine Drexel, founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, will be transferred from the crypt under the chapel of St. Elizabeth Convent, the congregation's Bensalem motherhouse, in the coming weeks to...
HANOI, Vietnam -- A prominent Catholic blogger and activist ended a two-week hunger strike in a Vietnamese prison after she met with visiting U.S. diplomats, local bloggers reported.
Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, 39, stopped her strike after the visit July...
BRANDYWINE HUNDRED — St. Mary Magdalen’s library is undergoing a makeover this summer that will transform it into a modern learning space while reaching into the school’s past to honor a longtime advocate for education.
The Barbara Wanner Learning Commons...
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...