MARRIOTTSVILLE, Md. -- Maryland-based Bon Secours Health System and Mercy Health, with headquarters in Ohio, plan to merge by the end of the year, forming one of the country's largest health systems.
The merger of the two Catholic health care...
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NEW YORK -- Lent is intended to be a season of ongoing conversion for the baptized, as well as of increasing conformity to the message of the Gospel among catechumens and those coming into full communion with...
St. Christopher’s Catholic Church in Chester, Md., joined over 540 other churches in all 50 states and in 16 countries to hold the “Night to Shine” prom Feb. 9 for people with special needs. “Night to Shine” is sponsored...
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Second Sunday of Lent
Cycle B
1) Gn 22:1-2, 9-13, 15-18
Psalm:116:10, 15-19
2) Rom 8:31-34
Gospel: Mk 9:2-10
To see with the eyes of faith
Lent is a time of spiritual regeneration and renewal. "The Transfiguration 'is the sacrament of the second regeneration':...
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WASHINGTON -- The head of an organization representing Jesuit middle and high schools in the U.S. and Canada is calling for stricter gun legislation, following the Valentine's Day mass shooting at a Florida high school that left...
WASHINGTON -- The Rev. Billy Graham was "a preacher of God's word not only in his sermons, but also in the very life he lived," said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic...
Today's Readings from the USCCB:
www.usccb.org/bible/readings/022218.cfm
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“Rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, insincerity, envy, and all slander; like newborn infants, long for pure spiritual milk so that through it you may grow into salvation, for you have...
MONTREAT, N.C. -- The Rev. Billy Graham, a fiery Baptist preacher who was easily the most famous evangelist of the 20th century and for decades one of the world figures most admired by Americans, died early Feb. 21 at...
DOVER – A shoulder injury that ended Elspeth Schalk’s athletic career opened the way for her to join the Catholic faith.
Schalk, 25, can still pitch underhand, as required in softball, but is unable to throw overhand, as is needed...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- About 100 students from Parkland arrived in Tallahassee the evening of Feb. 20, highly motivated to press their state lawmakers in person to reform gun laws after the deadly shooting rampage at their high school.
The afternoon...