A community of women religious in Pennsylvania is mourning the tragic death of one of its sisters who was traveling within the state to promote vocations.
Sister Augustine Marie (Georganne) Molnar, 43, was killed Nov. 18 in a head-on automobile accident on Route
Twenty years ago, an abandoned strip mine in western Pennsylvania transformed in one shocking moment into a national shrine, a living testament to the courage of everyday Americans faced with a life-or-death choice.
On Sept. 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark,
In place since March 2020 because of COVID-19, the dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass in person in the Philadelphia Archdiocese is being lifted, effective Aug. 15, the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The obligation to attend
Pope Francis has appointed Msgr. Larry J. Kulick, diocesan administrator of the Diocese of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, to head the diocese.
Bishop-designate Kulick, 54, was elected administrator in September to oversee governance of the diocese after Bishop Edward C. Malesic was installed Sept. 14
While visiting Scranton, Pennsylvania, for a Labor Day festival, Teresa Tomeo and her husband noticed that a monument honoring Vietnam veterans used the Bible quote from John 15:13 and listed it as anonymous. Tomeo and her husband decided to speak up. They
When we are faced with bad news, we long to categorize it, because if we can put everything into the right box, then (we tell ourselves) we can find an easy solution. If only life were so simple.
Impact of the sex abuse crisis affects victims, Catholics in the pews and priests of integrity
For many Catholics, this new wave of reports of widespread clergy abuse felt like opening up a wound that hadn’t fully healed.
As the first anniversary nears of a grand jury report that paints a lurid picture of sex abuse by Catholic priests in Pennsylvania over the last seven decades, other studies dispute the grand jury’s charge that bishops did nothing about the problem.
The scandal-plagued Catholic Church in Pennsylvania is under investigation again, this time by the federal government. In mid-October, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued subpoenas to all eight Roman Catholic dioceses and the two Eastern Catholic archeparchies in