WASHINGTON -- Each year on the night before the annual March for Life, at least 10,000 people have filled the Great Upper Church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington for the National...
St. Hedwig’s Parish in Wilmington has been the spiritual home of Polish Catholics in the Diocese of Wilmington for many years. The pastor, Father Andrew Molewski, is a native of Poland who has led the parish since 1998, giving...
A few stale Christmas cookies linger, but the mailbox has yielded its last, tardy Christmas card, and those not-so-merry tax documents are showing up instead. Bah humbug.
Soon, we will begin the inexorable trek through Ordinary Time that will lead...
WASHINGTON — Catholics, although they make up about 20% of the U.S. population, remain at 30% of the new Congress, according to a Jan. 4 report issued by the Pew Research Center.
Catholics again are the single largest denomination in...
MILLTOWN — Tiffany Herrera had the finish line in mind when she entered the final 800 meters at the DIAA Division II girls cross country state championship meet on Dec. 5 at Killens Pond State Park in Felton. Right...
2020 was a year of monumental losses for the nation's community of women religious.
Among them was the passing of 88-year-old Oblate Sister of Providence, Mary Reginald Gerdes.
On Sept. 7, Sister Gerdes, a former leader of Baltimore's St. Frances Academy,...
PHILADELPHIA — Pop quiz: Who was the first female American citizen to be canonized a saint?
Elizabeth Seton? No. Rose Duchesne? No. Katharine Drexel? No.
Try St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917), who was canonized in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.
She was...
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- With the year-end announcement that Jesuit Father Pat Conroy would be retiring as chaplain of the House of Representatives, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced that for the first time, a woman will take over...
ALBANY, N.Y. -- As COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to rise in the United States, the pandemic has taken a terrible toll on the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in Latham. In December, nine sisters there died of...
SEAFORD -- Consider it morning inspiration with a side of coffee.
Father Steven Giuliano of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Seaford takes to Facebook most mornings to offer a reflection and short message on the Gospel. He's been...