The first bounty of crops is ripe for picking and dozens of parishioners are excited to share the first vegetables of the season with their neighbors in need.
An expansive garden sitting on a third of an acre of parish...
By Madelyn Reichert, OSV News
“The Blackbird and Other Stories”
Sally Thomas, Wiseblood Books (2024)
280 pages, $16.50
In her excellent new collection, “The Blackbird and Other Stories,” Sally Thomas presents nine brief works of fiction that which at first appear disparate, but...
SMYRNA – Salesianum entered the DIAA boys volleyball championship match as the underdog on paper, carrying the No. 2 seed against top-seeded Appoquinimink. But it was the Sals who prevailed, winning a second consecutive state title after a 3-0...
WASHINGTON -- Catholic bishops are calling for prayer after two Israeli Embassy staff members were slain late May 21 outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington.
Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky were leaving an event at the museum when...
WASHINGTON -- An evenly-divided Supreme Court on May 22 sidestepped a major ruling in a case over what would have been the nation's first Catholic charter school, effectively blocking the effort.
The high court's 4-4 ruling means that a previous...
As I am preparing a paper to be given at a university on 100 years of immigration history, I could not help but discover similarities between the situation of our country in 1924 and that of today in 2025.
I...
By Our Sunday Visitor Staff, OSV News
"Fake quotes are easy to tweet. Truth is harder to live." That's not something Pope Leo XIV actually said -- but you might believe it, given how many false attributions have gone viral...
By Jason Adkins, OSV News
The modern tradition of Catholic social teaching (CST) -- the toolbox of principles the church calls us to draw upon to build the just social order -- was instigated by Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903). We...
Q: At my parish, we were blessed to have several adults baptized and enter into full communion with the church this past Easter. But my question is, what happens with their marriages? Doesn't a married person need their marriage...
BEAR – Rain on May 21 forced Saint Mark's to move its girls soccer quarterfinal-round matchup from the green, green grass of home to Caravel's turf, but the change seemed to suit the Spartans just fine. The second-seeded Spartans...