Sunday Scripture readings for Aug. 11, 2024, Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1 Kgs 19:4-8 Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Eph 4:30—5:2 Jn 6:41-51
Does concern for food that nourishes the body match desire for spiritual food that sustains the soul?
Food...
INDIANAPOLIS -- Mary Theisen-Lappen could never have planned out her own path to the Summer Olympics in Paris.
Four years ago, the women's weightlifting competitor -- now a member of the parish community of St. Paul Catholic Center in Bloomington...
August 2024
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
In 1796, a French priest, Reverend Etienne Faure, who came to Wilmington with a group of French immigrants from the island of St. Dominque, started the first sacramental register of what would become...
Parishioners from St. Ann’s in Wilmington wrapped up the observance of their annual St. Ann Novena with an ice cream social on July 26 to offer best wishes to seminarian Eric Gianforcaro.
Gianforcaro lead the novena at the parish each...
WASHINGTON -- Vice President Kamala Harris selected Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., as her running mate on the Democratic Party's ticket Aug. 6.
Harris secured her party's nomination for president shortly after President Joe Biden's historic announcement July 21 that he...
PRINCESS ANNE, Md. — The Seton Center, a multipurpose center operated by Catholic Charities, has a full schedule in the dog days of August.
The Somerset County Health Department will be at the center every Tuesday through Thursday, and the...
BALTIMORE -- Baltimore City police confirmed that after more than a year they have made an arrest in an assault of two elderly Catholic pro-life activists outside a downtown Planned Parenthood center.
In a July 31 email, Detective Freddie Talbert...
BRAINTREE, Mass. -- Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley's newly named successor as archbishop of Boston said at a press conference Aug. 5 that he is "humbled by the size and history of this archdiocese."
"I'm very well aware that I have...
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At least 11 churchmen have been detained by police and paramilitaries over a weeklong assault in northern Nicaragua, depleting the already demoralized Diocese of Matagalpa -- whose leader, Bishop Rolando Álvarez, lives in exile.
Nine priests and a deacon were...