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BEAR – Thirty minutes after Salesianum's lacrosse team had clinched the 2018 DIAA state championship, the Sals' players, coaches and their families lingered on the turf at Bob Peoples Stadium at Caravel Academy. Repeated announcements over the public address...
Dear Lord, It's hard to believe that I'm graduating. The years have flown by. I find myself consumed by so many different emotions: joy, fear, confusion, excitement, relief. I am at one point a bundle of self-confidence and bright hope...
Gap year volunteer experiences can shape and expand recent graduates' worldviews and faith lives. A gap year refers to a break that graduates can take researching, traveling or volunteering before beginning higher education or entering the workforce. After graduating from the...
Objectively we use hours, days, months and years to mark time. However, in our lived experience we rely on more relative terms. Our lives are defined by various key moments, and when telling stories and recalling memories, we use...
Transition from one phase of life to the next offers the opportunity for reflection. After graduation, gap year volunteer experiences can expand recent graduates' worldviews and faith lives. It's hard to believe graduation is here. Ahead lies a whole new set of...
WASHINGTON -- The 15th annual report on the implementation of the U.S. bishops' "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People" shows a decrease in allegations of clergy sex abuse from the two previous years but also indicates...
WASHINGTON -- In a 7-2 decision June 4, the Supreme Court sided with a Colorado baker in a case that put anti-discrimination laws up against freedom of speech and freedom of religious expression. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the...
SMYRNA – St. Polycarp parishioners celebrated the 50th anniversary of their church on Pentecost Sunday May 20. In keeping with Pentecost, when according to the Acts of the Apostles tongues of fire considered the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles...
As the spate of mass shootings throughout the country continues to rise, Amanda Fulton never considered the prospect something like that could happen at St. John the Apostle Church in Milford. Then Fulton, an usher who also is administrative assistant...
WASHINGTON -- The American Association for the Advancement of Science announced in Science magazine that it has chosen seven seminaries to participate in its "Science for Seminaries" program. Three of the chosen institutions are Catholic: Mundelein Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois;...