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VATICAN CITY -- Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope just a few days after telling the College of Cardinals that the Catholic Church faced a clear choice between being a church that "goes out" or a...
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ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan -- As Syria's war soon enters its eighth year, many decry the recent dangerous escalation in the conflict, whether in the country's north, between Turkey and the Kurds, or in the south, between...
From "Les Miserables" to "Pippin," from "Addams Family" to "Godspell" to "Frogs," stage performers and support staff have been working overtime to perfect second semester high school productions that begin as early as mid-February.
Readers become accustomed to reading about...
TRENTON, N.J. -- Superstorm Sandy-weary diocesan and parish officials lauded a Federal Emergency Management Agency policy change announced earlier this year that reverses a prior exclusion for religious organizations and houses of worship from applying for federal aid to...
NEW YORK -- The case involving the transfer of the remains of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen from New York to Peoria, Illinois, has been sent back to the original court by the New York Court of Appeals for an...
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WILMINGTON – A diocese’s sesquicentennial happens only once, and the Diocese of Wilmington is making sure the anniversary is marked in a prominent manner.
The Diocese of Wilmington will begin a yearlong celebration of its 150th anniversary beginning March...
On Ash Wednesday, it's not hard to identify Catholics. The smudge of ashes in the shape of a cross on their foreheads is a solid giveaway. The interesting part, though, is that the purpose of those ashes is quite...
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Unlike Christmas, Easter and every Sunday of the year, Ash Wednesday is not a holy day of obligation. Maybe that's part of the draw for some people, who fill their parish churches for Ash Wednesday liturgies as...
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"The one who has hope lives differently; the one who hopes has been granted the gift of a new life."
Those words appear in Pope Benedict XVI's 2007 encyclical on hope titled "Spe Salvi," a title based on...
A great many Christians enter Lent with the firm intention of praying
in a more committed way and a conviction that prayer will open a path for them toward new life and hope.
Lent is a kind of a spiritual do-over,...