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This morning's Lenten Journey quote from St. Francis of Assisi seems appropriate as a morning prayer any time of year. Think about adding it to your favorite reflections going forward. Join The Dialog again this year on Our Lenten Journey....
Have you been increasing your opportunities for prayer this Lent? It's good for our health, both body and soul, as St. John Chrysostom tells us on today's Lenten Journey. If you haven't yet, set aside some time for prayer...
By Gerry Jackson Catholic Review (Baltimore) The Maryland Catholic Conference has issued alerts, asking Catholics to speak up about proposed legislation in the state’s General Assembly. The MCC, which represents bishops serving the three Catholic dioceses in the state (Baltimore, Washington and...
Kenny Hunter Jr. of St. Elizabeth leads five boys high school basketball players from Catholic schools in earning all-state honors. The team was announced March 14 by the Delaware Sportswriters and Broadcasters Association, which conducts the vote along with...
Jezelle “GG” Banks, the highly touted sophomore guard from Ursuline Academy, has been named the Delaware girls' basketball player of the year. The team was announced March 14 by the Delaware Sportswriters and Broadcasters Association, which conducts the vote...
By Erin O’Leary, OSV News Lent gets its name from a word meaning "springtime," the time of year when the hours of daylight are lengthening and the sun is bringing back its warmth and light. The Lenten season, indeed all of...
A Satanic group's plans for a so-called "black mass" in the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka on March 28 have energized widespread Catholic condemnation. In a March 6 post on Facebook, the Kansas Catholic Conference said such "a sacrilegious event" would...
VATICAN CITY -- Four weeks after Pope Francis was hospitalized and one day after the 12th anniversary of the pope's election, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, celebrated a Mass for the pope with ambassadors accredited to the...
"No one knows the end" of recent deadly violence in Syria, said Maronite Archbishop Antoine Chbair of Latakia and Tartus. Hundreds of civilians have been killed since March 6 as Syria's security forces battled armed supporters of former Syria president...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis spent the 12th anniversary of his election to the papacy undergoing physiotherapy at Rome's Gemelli hospital, but he was well enough to celebrate it in little ways. Along with the health care workers treating him,...