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It's not officially an epidemic, but it's not as if you can go anywhere in New Castle County or most of the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington schools and not get a touch of Super Bowl Fever courtesy of...
ST. MEINRAD, Ind. -- Retired Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein of Indianapolis, a Benedictine priest for 53 years, died Jan. 25 at age 79.
His death was reported by St. Meinrad Archabbey, where he had lived in retirement since 2011.
Archbishop Buechlein...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate has confirmed Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a Catholic, to be the new U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom in the U.S. Department of State.
Nominated to the post in July by President Donald Trump, Brownback...
OMAHA, Neb. (CNS) -- She entered religious life thinking skills she'd learned on the soccer field, and volleyball, basketball and tennis courts, would have to stay on the sidelines.
Then came the boys and girls of St. Michael School in...
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston called for prayers for the victims killed and injured in a pair of school shootings in Kentucky and Texas.
In a statement released Jan. 23 after the second shooting in two...
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WILMINGTON — Kennedy Crowder realizes she was born with opportunities and advantages that others her age may not have. So she decided to do something to help even the playing field.
Over the past few years, the Padua Academy...
Dialog reporter
WILMINGTON — On an early December morning, first-grade students at St. Elizabeth School laughed as they helped program an electronic ball to follow a taped path along the floor of their classroom. Upstairs, sixth-graders played around with one...
The sacrament of reconciliation isn't about God condemning us for our sins, nor is it about the priest; rather, it's an invitation
to be healed by God's mercy.
It can be a powerful way to grow in faith and encounter God...
Catholic News Service
Human sinfulness and God's never-ending forgiveness are central themes of the entire Bible, Old and New Testament alike.
Beginning with the sin in the garden in Genesis 3:1-7, through God's mercy for Cain, on through the histories and...
Catholic News Service
For many baby boomers and other Catholics, the childhood experience of reconciliation was "old school" -- a daunting, opaque confession of transgressions in an anonymous, confining confessional capped off with a recital of the act of contrition.
Today,...