By Father Richard Jasper
The call came late Sunday evening. The children's hospital needed a priest to baptize a dying child. There were only mere hours left.
Changing back into my clerics and fumbling in the dark to find my keys,...
WASHINGTON — Launched Aug. 16, the Archdiocese of Washington’s action plan to promote “an integral ecology” includes practical ways that parishes, Catholic schools and institutions, and individuals and families can care for creation, drawing on environmental science and inspired...
Students in the Diocese of Wilmington will have to abide by COVID protocols in Delaware or Maryland, wherever they attend school, superintendent of schools Louis De Angelo wrote in letters to parents and guardians on Aug. 16. The letters...
Sunday Scripture readings, Aug. 22, 2021: Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
1) Jos 24:1-2, 15-17, 18 Psalm 34:2-3, 16-21
2) Eph 5:21-32 or 5:2, 25-32 Gospel: Jn 6:60-69
Immersing our senses into the 4D faith experience
A new trend in movie theater experience...
PHILADELPHIA -- Leny and Tata Talasan prayed every night with their four daughters for a new home in El Salvador City, Philippines.
Funded by a $45,000 grant from the Philadelphia-based Papal Foundation through the Daughters of Jesus congregation, the family...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When Jenna Fesemyer races at the Tokyo Summer Paralympic Games, the students and staff of St. John’s Catholic Newman Center at the University of Illinois will be watching and cheering her on.
And Fesemyer, who was born...
Ready for some good news?
Who isn't? Just a quick look at headlines during the past few days is sobering.
With our first cup of coffee one morning, we learned about the murderous earthquake in Haiti. There's the grim U.N. Climate...
Long Island’s Haitian American community is concerned about friends and relatives affected by the recent earthquake, and people want to help.
From her home in Uniondale on Long Island, Marjorie Janvier said she was on the phone with friends and...
VATICAN CITY -- Caritas Italy announced the suspension of charitable activities in Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban's takeover of the country.
In a statement released Aug. 15, Caritas said the "instability of the situation has led to the...
WARSAW, Poland -- Many Polish Catholics are mourning the death of Archbishop Henryk Hoser, a former Vatican envoy who helped rebuild the church in post-genocide Rwanda and later represented the pope at the Marian shrine in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The archbishop,...