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Delaware County’s St. Margaret Church set to close
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in Essingston, which had been a little-used worship site since merging with St. Gabriel, Norwood, in 2014, will formally close June 12.
In unique class trip, 8th graders set sail on the Delaware
This year's graduating class of St. Mark School in Bristol saw the students working the ropes and sails of a tall ship, and hearing the cheers of students in the schoolyard at St. Mark's, located on the river.
Congolese priest finds science, medicine help in service of the Gospel
Following more than a decade of scientific and medical education in the United States, Father Ikanga is a neuropsychologist and a fellow at Emory. He has found that faith and science build on one another.
Irish Columban who rescues trafficked minors wins human rights award
Father Shay Cullen, 74, received the award May 6 at Germany's Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt for rescuing minors from exploitation at the hands of sex traffickers, pedophiles, illegal detention and other forms of abuse.
Learn to know Jesus’ voice by reading the Bible, pope says
To know and follow Jesus, a Christian must read the Bible and learn to pray with it, allowing the Holy Spirit to help one understand it and put it into practice, Pope Francis said.
Priest kidnapped in Yemen pleads for help in video message
The video was posted on YouTube by the news site Aden Time May 8; the heavily bearded and very thin Father Uzhunnalil is shown seated with a cardboard sign in his lap with the date April 15, 2017.
USCCB communications restructuring shifts focus from print to digital
"It's an exercise in enculturation," said James Rogers, USCCB chief communications officer. "If you're going to evangelize, you need to reach people where they are."
Mexican bishops call for action on missing persons, mass graves
Many of those graves have been discovered by desperate family members acting on their own and without the assistance of the authorities, who are often accused of showing disinterest in finding the disappeared.
Jesuits to return 525 acres of South Dakota land to Rosebud Sioux
The property had been given by the U.S. government to the Jesuits in the 1880s for churches and cemeteries, most of which became unnecessary when people were moved off the prairie onto cluster housing.
New York center reaches people ‘about the genius of Catholicism’
Theater is the lingua franca of New York City and the Catholic Church has used art in myriad forms through the centuries to spread the message of the Gospels.