VATICAN CITY -- Twisted ideas of power and authority in the Catholic Church have contributed to the clerical sexual abuse crisis, leaders of religious orders said, but sometimes the positive "sense of family" in their own communities also made...
WASHINGTON -- Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Borys Gudziak of the Paris-based Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of St. Volodymyr the Great, to be the seventh metropolitan-archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
Bishop Andriy Rabiy, an auxiliary bishop of the...
VATICAN CITY -- When presented with an accusation that a priest has sexually abused a child, "whether it's criminal or malicious complicity and a code of silence or whether it is denial" on a very human level, such reactions...
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane of grace. That was how I best remember my first Mass as a priest.
Things were rather peaceful for me in the sanctuary and at the altar, but lots of...
The winter season concludes for two sports next weekend, while basketball wraps up the regular portion of the schedule.
Boys
Basketball
Tuesday
Archmere (12-7) at Brandywine (3-16), 5:30 p.m.
Polytech (2-15) at St. Mark's (14-5), 7:15 p.m.
Concord (9-10) at Salesianum (10-9), 7:30 p.m.
Wrestling
Friday-Saturday
Individual state...
"Salt and Light: Church, Disability and the Blessing of Welcome for All" by Maureen Pratt. Twenty Third Publications (New London, Connecticut, 2018). 114 pp, $16.95.
"A Cry Is Heard: My Path to Peace" by Jean Vanier with Francois-Xavier Maigre. Twenty...
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The accusations surrounding former U.S. Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick have been hanging over U.S. bishops and faith communities in the dioceses and archdioceses where he served -- New York, Metuchen and Newark in New Jersey, and...
At the end of Mass, we are blessed and sent “in peace to love and serve the Lord.” But how are we to be disciples of Christ in everyday life, outside of Mass?
We realize that our Christianity is to...
WILMINGTON – St. Elizabeth's boys basketball team could do little but watch as Concord raced past them in the third quarter, building up an eight-point lead with three and a half minutes remaining in the third quarter. Following a...
RIDGELY, Md. — The Diocese of Wilmington hopes a different approach for its annual “Pass the Word” discernment program will help put more priests in the pulpit. The annual program on Tuesday, Feb. 26 attracts high school students for...