BALTIMORE -- As a 44-person choir rehearsed "O God, How Manifest Are Your Works" before a celebration concert, Paulist Father Ricky Manalo bounced on his feet as he stood next to the piano.
After the choir ran through his song,...
CORDOVA, Md. – This year’s St. Joseph’s Church Jousting Tournament will mark its 150th anniversary Aug. 1 while bidding farewell to a prominent aspect of the annual festival.
Riders and their horses have converged on the grounds of the church,...
By FATHER JOSEPH MPR COCUCCI
The definition of the word “fracture” is “the cracking or breaking of a hard object or material.” You can fracture a bone; you can fracture a marble statue; you can fracture a glass window. You...
ROME (CNS) -- While Rome always has been a city of beauty that highlights both the past and the present, a quaint and unusual bar nestled in the heart of the Eternal City has taken that concept to new...
AUDUBON, Pa. (CNS) -- When he arrived at St. Gabriel's Hall in Audubon nine years ago, Quamiir Trice was in handcuffs.
Arrested for dealing crack, the 15-year-old had been sent to a residential treatment program for at-risk youth offered by...
By CHRISTOPHER WHITE
Speaking at a recent ordination of new priests in Ireland, Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said changes in the today's culture must lead to changes in the church -- particularly as it pertains to young people.
"Change is painful....
"The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search" by John O'Neill. Our Sunday Visitor (Huntington, Indiana, 2018). 205 pp., $21.95.
This book tells one of the most remarkable, and astonishing, true stories ever to come out of...
FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK
After making a giant step forward in modern communications, have we also taken two steps backward?
Thanks to the internet, people are communicating with each other in wonderful ways. For example, shut-ins once disconnected from society are able...
AJO, Ariz. (CNS) -- In the Sonoran Desert northeast of Ajo, temperatures can soar to mid-90s in late spring and above 100 degrees in the summer.
This vast, arid landscape of mountain ranges, arroyos and valleys, typical throughout southern Arizona,...
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Denise Ssettimba just began her brief presentation to an aide to Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, on the need to maintain U.S. funding for global anti-hunger efforts when two congressional dining staffers with food carts in tow...