One hundred years ago this July, the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, was thrust into the national spotlight in what was pitched as a historic showdown between faith and science.
The so-called "Scopes Monkey Trial" centered on John T. Scopes,...
Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami and some 25 Knights of Columbus saddled up their motorcycles to pray a rosary at the entrance of Alligator Alcatraz, the controversial migrant detention center recently opened in the Florida Everglades.
The archbishop posted...
It's often said that death and taxes are two of life's most enduring certainties. To that duo, anxious parents of teenagers might add another: rising college tuition.
For high school students yearning to attend a Catholic college, there is an...
VATICAN CITY -- Peering at the sunlit skies through a Vatican-owned space telescope and calling the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 spaceflight mission was how Pope Leo XIV celebrated the anniversary of the first crewed moon landing.
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When school bells ring at summer's end, families are craving routine again. But the busyness of back-to-school brings its own chaos. Prayer can easily get lost in the shuffle as everyone adjusts. How can we grow our faith as...
WILMINGTON – Most baseball games don't begin until the national anthem is sung, and at the Wilmington Blue Rocks game on July 18, that honor belonged to a combined choir from the Downtown Catholic Churches.
The St. Peter's Cathedral Adult...
AMMAN, Jordan -- As alarming sectarian violence swept through Syria in the third week of July, Christian communities in the region experienced a new wave of persecution. Attacks on the country's Christian, Druze and Alawite communities were perpetrated mainly...
SYDNEY -- The experience begins with a luminous church window framing a radiant image of Blessed Carlo Acutis hovering inches before your face.
As angelic music plays and hues of blue transform your immediate surroundings, reality itself shifts, as you...
Msgr. John Hopkins has been appointed administrator of St. Ann’s parish in Wilmington while pastor Father John Mink recovers from a stroke, parishioners were informed this week.
A message from the parish said the Diocese of Wilmington made the appointment...
Q: I used to volunteer to bring Holy Communion to the sick in nursing homes and hospice, and I always wondered: Why can't we bring the precious blood to those who are very ill or at the point of...