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Bishop Malooly will be the celebrant for Mass at St. Francis Xavier Church (Old Bohemia) in Warwick, Md. on Sept. 1 at 11 am in conjunction with the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington 150th Anniversary Historic Churches Pilgrimage. Guided tours...
A group of people are sitting on the beach a couple of blocks from where a New Jersey parish in recent years built a breathtaking new church. Going to church at the shore, where everything feels better, is made...
AMSTERDAM (CNS) -- An initiative to identify and properly treat children living with HIV has gained new momentum as international organizations and pharmaceutical companies respond to a Vatican push to look past profit to doing the right thing. Few children...
Catholics believe that Jesus is really present within the church in its status as the people of God -- as stated in the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church ("Lumen Gentium") -- but more particularly within the...
Corpus Christi. Body and blood. Real presence. When I was growing up and attending Lutheran Sunday school (until age 9), these terms were very unfamiliar to me, as I suspect they would be to most non-Catholic children. In my Sunday...
There are occasions in the mad rush of life when responsible, caring people go considerably out of their way to make themselves present to a spouse or a child, a parent, friend or even stranger. A father or mother hurriedly...

Living Our Faith: Being present

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We, in making ourselves present to others, signal our belief in them and our hopes for them. But do Christ's reasons for wanting to be present to us resemble our reasons for wanting to be present to others? If grace builds...
WASHINGTON -- The Archbishop of Boston said in an Aug. 10 statement that he has asked the rector of its main archdiocesan St. John Seminary to go on sabbatical leave immediately and is asking for an investigation of allegations...
WASHINGTON -- Human dignity: It hasn't quite become a campaign issue, but it's coming close. Former Vice President Joe Biden started it. Speaking July 21 in Phoenix to the League of United Latin Citizens about the Trump administration's immigration policies,...
BALTIMORE -- A little more than two decades after they met at an ice cream social on the second day of class at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, Ryan and Elizabeth Young head the Knights of Columbus International...