NORCROSS, Ga. -- Traffic came to a standstill along Beaver Ruin Road in the northeast metro area of Atlanta Oct. 25 as Catholics, representing several parishes and speaking multiple languages, followed on foot the Blessed Sacrament as a sign...
Sister Sandra Grieco, a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary who served for nearly 20 years at Saint Mark’s High School, died Oct. 26 at Our Lady of Peace Residence in Scranton, Pa. She...
The Catholic bishops of Maryland commemorated the 160th anniversary of Maryland Emancipation Day, affirming the dignity of every human person and noting that slavery was dehumanizing, reducing human beings to mere property.
“At the heart of our Catholic faith is...
A new podcast about the rosary promises to deepen listeners' love of the Marian devotion and draw them closer to Jesus and his mother, Mary, in the new year.
"I hope people fall in love," Father Mark-Mary Ames, a Franciscan...
Synodality has become a bit of a buzz word in the church.
Pope Francis has been talking about synodality since the beginning of his pontificate. He believes it is “the path that God expects of the church in the third...
The philosopher Paul Ricoeur once claimed, “the symbol gives rise to thought” because its meaning cannot be exhausted by any conceptualizations.
Religious symbols do this. Candles shine the light of faith; incense raises our prayer to God above. Church architecture...
It's one of the most divisive issues of the 2024 U.S. presidential election: immigration.
The Gallup polling organization reported in July -- before the final stretch of the campaign -- that U.S. adults by a 55% to 41% margin would...
Scripture readings for Nov. 3, 2024, Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dt 6:2-6 Ps 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51 Heb 7:23-28 Mk 12:28b-34
The theology of this passage from Mark matters. Obviously so does its place within the extended debates of rabbis...
On this episode of Catholic Forum, after a news update from The Dialog, we meet Bonnie Taylor and Louise Pfarr volunteers from St. Jude the Apostle Parish in Lewes, Delaware.
Taylor and Pfarr have started a Stephen Ministry at their parish to...
MILLTOWN — It was senior night for Saint Mark’s boys soccer, and the Spartans 12th-graders sure made it count. Six of them scored, and goalkeeper Clay Swift stopped all three shots he faced in a 9-0 victory over McKean.
There...