August 30, 2018
Dear Friends in Christ,
It is indeed a difficult time to be a Catholic as stories of egregious crimes perpetrated by Catholic priests and cover-ups by the hierarchy leave us heartbroken, disgusted and angry.
The Pennsylvania grand jury report...
ELSMERE – For many students, reading is a skill that comes rather naturally, but others struggle. A lack of reading acumen threatens to leave students behind in all subjects.
In years past, getting the kind of intensive instruction necessary to...
WASHINGTON — Fifty years ago in an act of civil disobedience, Bob Graf and 13 of his friends broke into nine neighboring draft boards in a Milwaukee office building, grabbed thousands of 1-A records of men about to be...
VATICAN CITY — While recent accusations by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano have created tension in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis is approaching the situation calmly, the Vatican secretary of state said.
In an interview posted Aug. 30 by "Vatican Insider,"...
Imagine rolling a pair of dice. You have the greatest probability of rolling the number seven. It has more combinations than any other number. (Actually, six sets of combinations total seven.) Perhaps for this reason the number seven has...
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Cycle B
1) Dt 4:1-2, 6-8
Psalm 15:2-5
2) Jas 1:17-18, 21-22, 27
Gospel: Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
Mysterious
As we listen to the Scripture readings at Mass today, the most difficult patch, I think, may be this portion of the...
MILLTOWN – Catholic school officials are kidding themselves if they believe they can keep the status quo and expect to be around in a few decades, a former high school administrator and campus minister told educators in Wilmington on...
WASHINGTON -- After recent reports describing clergy sex abuse, Paul Peloquin, a Catholic clinical psychologist and a clergy abuse survivor, shared advice for victims and their families.
"For Catholics who have been abused by a priest or clergy, it's doubly...
WASHINGTON — Nearly a year ago, Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico as a category 4 storm, and afterward 11-year-old Marco Lebron’s first thought was about the monks who teach at his school, Benedictine-run San Antonio Abad School and...
WILMINGTON – St. Ann Parish is home for Pat Butler Grant and her family. She and her husband, Jim, have been members for decades, and their two children, Colleen and Sheila, attended the parish school. Grant joined the school...