The biggest adventure of our marriage began just a few weeks after our sixth anniversary. Fueled by faith, dreams and a photograph, we boarded a plane to Beijing to bring home a little boy we had never met. He...
"Lord, give me strength."
This has been my mantra of late, every morning when I start to hear the first whines and cries from my 17-month-old around 5:20 a.m.
"Lord, give me strength."
My swollen body aches, my hips annoyed at the...
Meeting the spiritual needs of large groups of people is a significant ministry in normal circumstances.
Serving as a chief operating officer for those same large groups adds another element.
Doing it all without the benefit of personal interaction makes the...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has expanded the ranks of the top members of the College of Cardinals, naming as "cardinal bishops" Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, and Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, prefect of the...
NEW ORLEANS -- Citing mounting concerns over the financial impact of clergy sex abuse settlements and the coronavirus pandemic, the Archdiocese of New Orleans filed for Chapter 11 reorganization of the finances of its administrative offices May 1 in...
FATHER JOHN HYNES
Among these fifty days of Easter, today is Good Shepherd Sunday. But where are the children in white, moving toward the altar for First Holy Communion? Where were the teenagers, solemn and awed, for Confirmation last week? ...
Father William J. Lawler had a gift for relating to people, using humor and his own life experiences to minister during his 48 years as a priest of the Diocese of Wilmington, according to friends and parishioners. The Wilmington...
An Archmere Academy junior has spent much of her time at home over the past three weeks working to help those combating the coronavirus. The journey to making personal protective equipment involved Amazon, YouTube and a personal investment.
Margaret Atkins...
CLEVELAND — When public Masses and the celebration of the sacraments resume in dioceses where they were suspended, the look and feel of worship are not expected to be that which parishioners have been accustomed.
Social distancing in pews, requirements...
VATICAN CITY -- Because all of the human bones found in a Vatican cemetery last summer were at least 100 years old, the Vatican City State court officially closed its investigation into the possibility that some of the remains...