Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON -- Seven Catholic peace activists were detained at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Georgia early April 5, hours after entering to protest nuclear weapons.
The group carried "hammers and baby bottles of their own blood," which...
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — Assisted suicide, abortion restrictions, health insurance coverage of abortion, financial aid for nonpublic schools and some tax relief for low-income families are among the issues being tackled by state legislatures across the country.
According to the...
Dialog reporter
NEW CASTLE – St. Elizabeth dodged one threat in the bottom of the seventh inning in the Vikings' nonconference baseball game against Hodgson on April 5, but there would be no second such escape. Donnie Weaver's single scored...
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON -- Catholic leaders in Texas criticized President Donald Trump's April 4 announcement that he would be deploying National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.
In an April 5 tweet, San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller said Trump's move...
As part of the Diocese of Wilmington’s 150th anniversary celebration, nine churches in Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern Shore have been designated as Official Sesquicentennial Pilgrimage Churches.
These historic churches will be open for additional touring and worship on the first...
The Catholic Standard
WASHINGTON -- Fifty years after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. -- he was gunned down April 4, 1968 -- the great civil rights advocate continues to be an outstanding example of how to...
ASTON, Pa. – Sister Elizabeth Doyle, who ministered for 15 years in the Diocese of Wilmington, died April 3 at Assisi House. She was 98 and had been a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia...
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON -- This year's NCAA basketball tournament was one for the books for Catholic universities. You might even say the ball was in their court.
That's because for the first time, Catholic university teams won both the men's...
Catholic News Service
Second Sunday of Easter
Cycle B
1) Acts 4:32-35
Psalm 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24
2) 1 Jn 5:1-6
Gospel: Jn 20:19-31
Seeing with eyes of faith
Jesus often praised the faith of ordinary people he encountered during his earthly ministry: the man born blind, the...
Catholic News Service
ROME -- Friends and fans called him a "gentle giant," a faithful "prayer warrior" and a Clark Kent whose superman power was helping people grow in holiness and faith.
"I believe I truly knew a saint," one friend...