VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis said he plans to name two women to the committee that helps him choose bishops for the world's Latin-rite dioceses.
In an interview July 2 with the Reuters news agency, the pope seemed to indicate...
It’s been seven months since the Archmere Academy football team won the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association Class 2A football state championship, but the Auks took care of some unfinished business on July 4.
Players, coaches, cheerleaders and other members of...
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Scott Richert, publisher of Our Sunday Visitor, said July 6 the Indiana-based Catholic publishing company would fill the void left behind by the closure of the domestic operations of Catholic News Service in January 2023 with...
Sunday Scripture readings, July 10, 2022: Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1) Dt 30:10-14 Psalm 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36-37 or 19:8-11
2) Col 1:15-20 Gospel: Lk 10:25-37
God's word challenges us to imitate the good Samaritan
At the start of the war...
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Father Gerald Andrews studied aerospace engineering in college and then entered the seminary after discerning that he had a higher calling, to help lead people to heaven as a priest. On June 18, 2022, he was among...
Catholic Charities’ Casa San Francisco was the grateful recipient of $9,700 from the Delaware Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) State Regent, Dr. Gloria Lester, as part of her State Regent’s Project, it was announced recently.
The Daughters of the...
Huntington, IN — Leaders of Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., in Indiana announced June 6 that it will launch OSV News, a new Catholic news service, Jan.1, 2023, potentially filling a void left by the demise of Catholic News Service.
Subscribers...
CHICAGO — Saying he watched "in horror" news reports in the aftermath of a mass shooting during a suburban Fourth of July parade, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago offered prayers for the victims.
Seven people are confirmed dead and...
PHILADELPHIA-- Gun violence in Philadelphia highlights the deep-seated trauma and developmental issues experienced by many of the city's youth, said an Archdiocese of Philadelphia mental health professional.
"You're talking about so many of our young people being chronically exposed to...
WASHINGTON -- In the Supreme Court's 2021-2022 term, which concluded June 30, it issued four opinions on religious liberty cases, siding with religion each time.
Two of the cases involved prayer and all of them looked at the exclusion of...