May is usually a month crammed with celebrations on our calendars. We rush between graduations, first Communions, confirmations, showers for summer weddings or babies, Mother's Day brunches and Memorial Day barbecues.
But now we find ourselves facing a very different...
VATICAN CITY -- Expressing his hopes for a vaccine against the coronavirus, Pope Francis also gave his support to an interreligious day of prayer and fasting for an end to the pandemic.
After reciting the "Regina Coeli" prayer May 3,...
VATICAN CITY -- Priests and doctors who gave their lives caring for the spiritual and physical well-being of others during the coronavirus pandemic are like Jesus, the good shepherd, who laid down his life for his flock, Pope Francis...
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...