WASHINGTON -- Former President Jimmy Carter died Dec. 29 at his home in Plains, Georgia, his presidential library announced. At 100, Carter, who had been in hospice care since February 2023, was the longest-living U.S. president.
Carter, who served from...
In an eventful year for life issues -- including abortion, assisted suicide, and immigration -- advocates and opponents alike wrestled with outcomes, each other, governments, public opinion, and the ballot box.
Ultimately -- according to various experts interviewed by OSV...
NAZARETH, Israel -- An indulgence granted during the Jubilee Year is not just an occasion to "get something" but rather is a sign of the Holy Year, of the moment where the faithful must put themselves in front of...
WILMINGTON – The St. Elizabeth boys basketball team has multiple scoring options, and on Dec. 29 all of them were on display. The Vikings scored inside and outside, in transition and the halfcourt, on the way to a 77-52...
So, at the end of 2023, I published my "Catholic Wish List" for 2024, laying out some hopes for the church that seemed, if not "easy," then at least reasonable and doable for the truly motivated. Readers said they...
WILMINGTON – St. Elizabeth went on a 15-0 run early in the fourth quarter to pull away from a tenacious for in Our Lady of Mercy Academy (N.J.), 55-44, in the Viking Invitational on Dec. 27 at the St....
Scripture readings for Dec. 29, 2024, Feast of the Holy Family
Sir 3:2-6, 12-14 or 1 Sm 1:20-22, 24-28 Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 or Ps 84:2-3, 5-6, 9-10. Col 3:12-21 or 3:12-17 or 1 Jn 3:1-2,...
On this episode of Catholic Forum, we talk with Father Cyrille Ulrich Migyigbena, a priest of Cotonou Archdiocese in Benin Republic in West Africa and Director of the International Catholic School of Prayer and Evangelization, "Jeunesse Bonheur." This school provides...
As millions of pilgrims prepare to cross through the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis called on individuals, nations and the global community to take a transformative step toward peace and reconciliation by walking through the "door...
Bishop Koenig spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day celebrating Mass at two parishes along the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Christmas Eve Mass was at St. Christopher Church in Chester, Maryland at Kent Island.
On Christmas morning, the bishop traveled to...