WASHINGTON -- The leaders of three U.S. Catholic organizations hope to have a million people pray and promote the daily rosary during the month of October for "the end to legal abortion in America and an outpouring of support...
WILMINGTON — After a year away from the rivalry, students from Ursuline and Padua were ready to let loose during the first of two matches this season between the neighboring schools. Inside a raucous Laffey-McHugh Gymnasium, the second-ranked Pandas...
When Clem first arrived in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1993, some might have mistaken him for a senior citizen.
A Holy Cross priest, Father LeRoy Clementich was 70 when he began his adventuresome ministry piloting a Piper Cherokee 180 into remote...
VATICAN CITY — All Christians are called to be missionaries, which at its most basic level involves living in such a way that other people ask what motivates their love and concern, Pope Francis said.
“Jesus asks us all, and...
CLEVELAND — Father Michael Bausch has long been concerned about the environment and would speak at times about care for God’s creation during homilies at his parish in the Diocese of Rochester, N.Y., where he was pastor for 19...
Sunday Scripture readings, Oct. 3, 2021: Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
1) Gn 2:18-24 Psalm 128:1-6
2) Heb 2:9-11 Gospel: Mk 10:2-16 or 10:2-12
From beginning of creation, God desired the loving union of marriage and family
Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi and Maria Corsini...
Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical, Laudato Si, has generated a great buzz.
I have to admit that I haven’t always taken enough interest in ecological issues, assuming that doing so would somehow compromise my dedication to the frail seniors with whom...
MILLTOWN — Saint Mark’s boys soccer team found itself in a dogfight for the third straight match when the Spartans met Newark Charter on Sept. 29, and for the third straight time, they came out on the winning end...
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said current conditions in Haiti allowed for the return of some of the estimated 14,000 Haitian migrants who crossed earlier in September from Mexico into Del Rio, Texas.
He was the keynote speaker...
WASHINGTON -- Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn, New York, and named Bishop Robert J. Brennan of Columbus, Ohio, to succeed him.
Bishop DiMarzio, who has been Brooklyn's bishop since is 2003, turned 77...