On this episode of Catholic Forum, after a Dialog news update from Virginia Durkin O'Shea, filling in for the vacationing Joe Owens, and a cut from the CD, Catholic Treasures, Stephanie Kelton, Fund Development and Public Relations Manager for Catholic Charities of the Diocese of...
Within 24 hours after Archbishop William E. Lori asked Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore to support twin emergency relief funds for those affected by the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, nearly $50,000 was raised in online donations.
Donors contributed...
PARIS -- Over 12,000 people, both adults and adolescents, were baptized in France on Easter -- a record number in the country that experiences what many church leaders have called an accelerated "de-Christianization."
Requests for adult baptisms have been on...
For plummeting worldwide fertility rates to change course, people must find courage to "do the hard thing" of raising large families, and that courage comes from faith, said Catherine Ruth Pakaluk, an economist at The Catholic University of America...
Sunday Scripture readings for April 7, Second Sunday of Easter
Acts 4:32-35 Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24 1 Jn 5:1-6 Jn 20:19-31
The Holy Spirit invites us to leave behind our fears and live in friendship with Jesus
Fear is a powerful human...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis held up a well-thumbed, camouflage-covered pocket edition of the New Testament and Psalms and a small fabric pouch containing a rosary.
He told people at his general audience April 3 that the Bible and rosary...
ROME (OSV News) -- World Central Kitchen, a humanitarian organization that delivers food in war-torn countries, expressed outrage after seven of its workers were killed in an Israeli missile strike in Gaza.
In an April 2 statement, the WCK, which...
SALISBURY – The process was as important – if not more so – as the final product during the second 2024 diocesan Synod listening session Monday evening, March 18, at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Parish in Salisbury, Md.
About...
“One of Us” is a brief snapshot of people who support the Catholic church in various ways in the Diocese of Wilmington. We regularly feature people who may be recognizable within their parish or school communities.
NAME: Connor Victoria
School: Archmere Academy
Year: Senior
"What...
CUERNAVACA, Mexico -- Catholics turned out in large numbers to celebrate Holy Week in Nicaragua. But the ruling Sandinista regime prohibited public exhibitions of faith -- such as processions and reenactments of the passion of Christ -- as it...