OCEAN CITY, Md. -- Nearly 60 people showed up for Mass at Holy Savior Church on Memorial Day, the first celebration of the liturgy in more then two months as restrictions aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus begin...
Today's responsorial psalm uses brief excerpts from the lengthy Psalm 104, a paean to God's work as Creator. In keeping with the theme of Pentecost, the selected verses highlight the Holy Spirit who not only creates but also renews.
The...
"Peace be with you," Jesus says in the Gospel reading for Pentecost Sunday (Jn 20:19).
Peace — as in harmony, or even as in a lack of noise — is not exactly plentiful these days. Certainly not in an election...
The pomp is subdued because the circumstance is like nothing anyone has ever seen. Coronavirus has scuttled traditional graduation ceremonies, and the nine Catholic high schools in the Diocese of Wilmington have adjusted accordingly. Instead of gymnasiums filled with...
Bishop Malooly livestreams Mass from the Cathedral of St. Peter in Wilmington for the Ascension of the Lord.
Homilist is Father Joseph W McQuaide IV, chancellor and rector of the Cathedral, preaching.
Although public gatherings have been cancelled during the stay-at-home...
Following the positive impacts of social distancing and decreases in new COVID-19 cases, Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic announced it will begin a phased approach to resuming critical services and elective surgeries.
Prioritizing clinically necessary services, Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic hospitals are tentatively...
NEW YORK -- Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York and other church officials announced a multistep plan to reopen the 288 parish churches of the archdiocese as the coronavirus pandemic eases.
Called Faith Forward, the plan introduced May 21...
WASHINGTON -- The head of National Right to Life and other pro-life leaders criticized Planned Parenthood affiliates for applying for and receiving funds under the Paycheck Protection Program, created by Congress to provide relief for small businesses with fewer...
"Sunday Will Never Be the Same: A Rock and Roll Journalist Opens Her Ears to God" by Dawn Eden Goldstein. Catholic Answers Press. (El Cajon, California, 2019). 256 pp., $16.95.
Open this memoir and brace yourself for some pretty unconventional...
METUCHEN, N.J. -- May is the month many eagerly await because it is the time many children receive first holy Communion. Sadly, this year the coronavirus has made pastors postpone this momentous milestone in the spiritual lives of waiting...