BALTIMORE-- In recent years, a growing awareness of injustice and calls for reform have led to a racial reckoning, with businesses, corporations, nonprofit organizations and institutions across the country reassessing their own complicity with racism in its various forms.
The...
Parish leaders seeking guidance for the National Eucharistic Revival's upcoming parish year now have a 24-page resource to assist their discernment. The "Leader's Playbook," released May 1, helps parishes answer the question "what are we being asked to do?"...
James M. Gebhart, a resident of Newark, will be ordained to the transitional diaconate by Bishop Koenig on Saturday, May 13 at 11 a.m., at his home parish, St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Hockessin.
Gebhart, who will...
Sunday Scripture readings, May 14, 2023,Sixth Sunday of Easter
Acts 8:5-8, 14-17 Ps 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20 1 Pt 3:15-18 Jn 14:15-21
Where is God? Cynics scoff, doubters shrug, but you don’t have to look far for an answer
A few...
MILLTOWN — Saint Mark’s had held the Cape Henlopen baseball team scoreless for five innings on May 9, but they still needed six outs to beat the defending state champions. Cape scored three times in the sixth to cut...
Questioned by the confreres of a Hungarian Jesuit kidnapped with another priest and imprisoned during Argentina's murderous military dictatorship, Pope Francis said, "I did what I felt I had to do to defend them. It was a very painful...
ASTON, Pa. — Sister Mary Patricia Johnson, formerly Sister Mary Amata, a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 58 years, died May 8 in Assisi House. She was 88.
A native of Philadelphia, Sister Mary...
Three years ago, Helen Verriotto was a 27-year-old mother of one, pregnant with her second child — and homeless.
Both of her parents had died years earlier: her mother while Verriotto was still a little girl, and her father just...
When Mattel announced the release of a Barbie doll portrayed with Down syndrome April 25, the global toymaker explained the addition to its product line is intended "to allow even more children to see themselves in Barbie."
But a corresponding...
WASHINGTON — As Title 42 draws to its scheduled close, House Republicans are planning to vote on border security legislation criticized by the U.S. bishops.
Title 42, scheduled to end May 11, is a part of federal U.S. public health...