Q: After the last presidential election, while in confession, I asked the priest this question and his response astounded me. He said voting for a Democrat was a mortal sin, their political stance on abortion demands this, and he...
"This mountain's of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind."
The speaker is the Roman poet Virgil, Dante's companion and guide in scaling the lofty mountain of Purgatory...
MIDDLETOWN — Salesianum allowed a Middletown touchdown in the middle of the first quarter, but those were the only points the Sals surrendered in a 38-7 win over the Cavaliers on Oct. 25 at Cavalier Stadium. The victory put...
CHÉMERÉ-LE-ROI, France -- As pilgrims gather in Rome for the 13th annual "Summorum Pontificum" pilgrimage for those devoted to the traditional Latin Mass Oct. 25-27, traditionalist Catholics in France are discerning a new idea: a personal ordinariate for Catholics...
VATICAN CITY -- The 18 cardinals who head Vatican offices will find a little less in their pay envelopes starting Nov. 1.
Maximino Caballero Ledo, a layman who heads the Dicastery for the Economy, informed the cardinals Oct. 18 that...
Throughout the United States, Oct. 15 has been designated as "Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day."
It is a day when grieving parents come together and are surrounded by family and friends’ loving support to remember their little one, a...
Some might wonder how a Cleveland, Ohio, native, mother of three, youngest of 10 siblings, finds her way to be executive director of Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Wilmington, serving Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Get to...
WILMINGTON – Salesianum School inducted six people into its Alumni Hall of Fame during a ceremony held Oct. 19 at the school. Five of the inductees are from this year, while the sixth was a member of the Class...
By Lorene Hanley Duquin, OSV News
Some people know instinctively how to help a grieving person. But for most of us, dealing with someone else's grief is a little more uncomfortable. We might be at a loss for words. We...
NEW YORK – The debut of a TV show these days is almost never a culture-changing event, despite all efforts at energetic hype. But that was not the case in the three-channel universe of the 1970s.
In that pre-internet, mostly...