On the occasion of St. John Paul II's 1984 visit to Fairbanks, Alaska, at the start of a trip to Far East nations, President Ronald Reagan highlighted the pontiff's work to ensure "rights and dignity of the individual and...
St. Elizabeth opens the 2024 football season at home against Archmere on Sept. 7 with a roster that mixes experience in a few key spots with plenty of youth. The roster is evenly split, with half being juniors and...
Q: What is the criteria determining who can wear a "clerical collar"? I'm not sure if it varies from one seminary/diocese to another, but I'm curious why seminary students would wear a collar since they are not a member...
By Woodeene Koenig-Bricker
Our lives have knots that can seem impossible to untie: marriage troubles, money problems, unemployment, illness, loneliness, fears and worries of all kinds. When we find ourselves facing challenges and seem to have no solutions, there is...
A veteran Archmere football team takes the field Sept. 7 against St. Elizabeth in search of the program's third trip to the state championship game in the last four years. The Auks face a challenging road to get there,...
Whether our hopes for this summer have been fulfilled or not, the season is waning. Most kids have returned to school, and the full force of the fall calendar is poised to kick in. All we can do now...
The quest for a berth in the Class 3A state tournament begins the afternoon of Sept. 6 for the Saint Mark’s football team at St. Georges. The Spartans and Hawks get things going at 4 p.m.; tickets are available...
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Even members of the most remote, smallest and poorest Christian communities are called to share the Gospel and to do so, first, by the way they live, Pope Francis told the Catholics of Indonesia.
With tens of...
WASHINGTON-- Ahead of Hispanic Heritage Month, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat for Cultural Diversity in the Church has released a resource kit "to help illustrate the profound impact of the Hispanic/Latino community within the Catholic Church in...
It was during a session for priests at the 10th National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis in July when Archbishop Richard G. Henning, who will be installed as archbishop of Boston Oct. 31, made peace with what was to come.
"God...