CatholicPhilly.com begins partnership with Salt + Light for video content

Beginning this week, CatholicPhilly.com presents programming from Salt + Light, a Catholic media organization based in Canada. The partnership will kick off by featuring the Catholic current affairs program “Catholic Focus,” as well as the recently debuted “Vatican Connections.” In the coming months, CatholicPhilly.com will also feature “The Church Alive,” currently still in production, which is […]

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Sister Adorata Basara of the Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Third Order Regular of St. Francis, dies

Sister Adorata Basara of the Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Third Order Regular of St Francis, died April 20 at St. Joseph Villa, Mt. Alvernia, Reading, PA, where she had resided since 2007. Born in Manayunk, Pa., she was a daughter of the late Louis and Mary (Kozak) Basara. Sister Adorata entered the Bernardine Order on Feb. […]

New Zealand bishops disappointed with passage of same-sex marriage law

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (CNS) -- New Zealand's Catholic bishops described as "bizarre" parliament's vote that discards the understanding of traditional marriage when it approved a same-sex marriage law. The bishops also expressed sadness that the April 17 action was taken despite widespread opposition from New Zealanders.

Marriage is not for government to ‘define or redefine,’ says bishop

WILMINGTON, Del. (CNS) -- Marriage "is a unique relationship between a man and a woman" and it's not the government's place to "define or redefine" it, Bishop W. Francis Malooly of Wilmington said in an April 15 letter to Delaware legislators. The letter was sent four days after Gov. Jack Markell announced a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the state. In 2011, Delaware legalized civil unions for same-sex couples.

From Korean bishops’ president, a ‘Prayer for Peace’

MANILA, Philippines (CNS) — Following is a “Prayer for Peace” by Bishop Peter Kang U-il of Cheju, South Korea, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea. He sent the English-language prayer to Catholic News Service April 9. Lord, please have mercy on this silly people. Forgive this silly flock who scatter enormous money in […]

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St. Mary Medical Center, Langhorne, opens new operating rooms

Kearns Goodwin recalls growing up Catholic in Brooklyn, with a peculiar penance: praying for the Dodgers

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s topic at La Salle University on March 21 was Abraham Lincoln, but at the same time, perhaps because it was a Catholic setting, she graciously shared a story from her own childhood. It’s not the first time she has told it but it is worth repeating.  It tells something about the innocence […]