By Nathan Whalen, OSV
SEATTLE - About 200 volunteers descended on St. Joseph Parish's social hall in Seattle to assemble 72,000 meals that will be delivered to hungry families in Haiti.
"It was really a lot of fun. People left saying,...
Confusion about Jesus' Jewish identity persists, despite almost six decades of Catholic Church teaching on how to present Jews and Judaism in catechesis and preaching.
That's according to biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine, co-editor of "The Jewish Annotated New Testament," who...
NEW YORK -- About 1,500 family members and well-wishers joined bishops, priests, religious brothers and dozens of sisters from the Sisters of Life as seven new sisters took their perpetual vows August 5 at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan.
Cardinal...
Ursuline Sister Carol Ann Holder, who ministered in the Diocese of Wilmington, died Aug. 4 at Andrus on Hudson in Hastings on Hudson, N.Y. She was 95.
Born in New York, Sister Carol Ann, also known as Joan, taught at...
ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM PORTUGAL -- After a five-day trip to Portugal, which recently came to terms with its own clerical sex abuse crisis, Pope Francis said the Catholic Church must abandon its practice of covering up abuse...
Sister Vincent Schroeder, a New Castle native who ministered primarily in education in nearly 70 years of religious life, died Aug. 3, five days short of her 88th birthday. She was a member of the Benedictine Sisters of Ridgely,...
LISBON, Portugal -- To end "Catholic Woodstock" -- as World Youth Day has been called by the Portuguese press -- Pope Francis told 1.5 million weary-eyed and sleep-deprived young people in Lisbon not to let their "great dreams" of...
I found the lump at the end of Lent.
My husband was out of town, and I was swamped with work and caring for our five kids. Never one to do a regular self-check (more likely to resolve to “do...
For love of the house of the Lord
I will ask for your good. -- Ps 122:9
Sometimes Jesus' words are so familiar to us we stop noticing the whole of what he is saying. "Love your enemies, and pray for...
Seeing Pope Francis and hearing from several U.S. bishops was plenty of inspiration for Salesianum School graduate Gerald Brady at World Youth Day in Lisbon.
But it was the feeling in the air combined with his strong faith that really...