A process to examine and renew the structure of the Catholic Church in South Edison and Highland Park is officially underway.
Attend any rodeo on the island of Hawaii and you will see small leather crosses attached to the saddles of many of the riders.
Licensed practical nurse Justine Dineen uses her medical expertise to treat patients for a variety of ailments, including diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity. But for Dineen, a member of St. Bernadette Parish, Parlin, her Catholic faith is also an important component of care.
Jarteau Israel will always remember the day when he was watching TV and received a text message from his nephew urging him to change the channel to CNN as coverage unfolded following the earthquake in Haiti.
July 2, 1860: A small band of strong, determined women arrived at the bottom of the hill where they would settle as the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth. Led by Mother Mary Xavier Mehegan, who according to legend was clutching a marble statue of the Blessed Mother and a $5 bill, these nine remarkable women create a community, now 150 years old, and a college that is currently celebrating its 110th year.
Sixth- and seventh-graders from 14 Catholic and public schools gathered to match wits at Cardinal McCarrick High School’s second annual academic competition March 11.
At St. Augustine of Canterbury School, technology expands the classroom walls without sacrificing the basics of spiritual and academic training, according to Religious Teachers Filippini Sister Mary Louse Shulas, principal.
Five decades of high standards of academic achievement and spiritual formation were recognized at a Mass commemorating St. Thomas the Apostle School’s 50th anniversary.
Higher education for young women in Massailand, Tanzania has not traditionally been part of their lives. It is expected they be sold into marriage by their fathers at a very young age for a “bride price,” generally a number of cows, to bear and raise children and to care for the livestock. That situation, however, is slowly changing.
“Despite the good” that proposed health reform legislation “intends or might achieve,” concerns about the abortion wording in the Senate-passed bill compel the U.S. bishops to “regretfully hold that it must be opposed until these serious moral problems are addressed,” Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago said March 15.
A new analysis of religious identification data finds that contrary to popular belief, U.S. Latinos are not leaving behind Catholicism for Protestant churches, but instead are becoming more secularized, affiliating themselves with no faith at all.
You’d have to be living in a different solar system not to notice that the Catholic Church comes under a lot of media scrutiny. This is probably as it should be. We are big. We are influential. As an organization run largely by fallible beings, we make many mistakes.
Recently I had the opportunity to attend the Virtual Learning Center for Faith Formation Conference at the University of Dayton. For 10 years the Institute for Pastoral Initiatives, which the VLCFF is part of, has been gathering diocesan directors from all over the country to discover the best practices for forming people in our faith through online learning.
Who can gaze at a newborn child and not feel a sense of awe at the miracle of life? For young parents, this moment of overwhelming love and joy also brings the hard-hitting reality of the responsibility involved in caring for the physical, emotional and intellectual needs of this precious little one through adulthood. The stories of parents who work hard and sacrifice much so that their children can have a better life have been told for centuries and are still with us today.
