VATICAN CITY -- Transparent, reliable and respectful administration is critical for counteracting sinful behavior within the Catholic Church, said German Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising.
"There are no alternatives to traceability and transparency," he said, adding that he...
VATICAN CITY -- In an opulent Vatican room designed in the 16th century for papal meetings with kings, a cardinal read, "We confess that we have shielded the guilty and have silenced those who have been harmed."
"Kyrie, eleison," (Lord,...
VATICAN CITY -- If they are truly serious about fighting clerical sex abuse, bishops must join forces with journalists and not view them as enemies plotting against the Catholic Church, Mexican journalist Valentina Alazraki said.
Alazraki, who has covered the...
St. Elizabeth has earned the top seed in the 2019 DIAA girls basketball tournament, and three other Catholic high schools are in the 24-team field. The tournament gets underway Wednesday night at eight first-round sites.
The Vikings finished the regular...
NEW CASTLE — Marnie Giunta of Padua Academy was the Tubby Raymond Award winner as Delaware’s coach of the year, but two of the other four award-winners had a distinctly Catholic flavor.
Donte DiVincenzo, the Salesianum School graduate who is...
PHILADELPHIA -- A report on the first financial settlements by the Independent Reconciliation and Reparation Program for victims of clergy sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has been made public.
The IRRP began Nov. 13, 2018, as a way...
The Catholic Diocese of Wilmington is presenting a four-part multimedia Lenten series that will be distributed via digital video, radio broadcasts and podcasts, the diocese has announced.
Written and hosted by Father Richard J. Jasper, associate pastor of Saint Ann...
By now I think almost everyone has seen the photograph from Gov. Ralph Northam’s yearbook -- a man in blackface standing next to a hooded Klansman. The figure on the left in the picture might have stepped out of...
Lent beckons, and that’s a good time to dust off my gratitude journal.
If you want a run-down on all the ways gratitude can help you, visit happierhuman.com/benefits-of-gratitude. Over 26 studies have chronicled how gratitude can help you sleep better,...
The world makes its way, for better or worse, into our still-young, new millennium. But time flies! Nearly 20 years of this millennium's first century already have assumed their place in history's annals.
Great hopes accompanied the millennium's arrival. Could...