After serving two years as chaplain and director of campus ministry at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Father Richard Hilgartner has been named the new associate director for the Secretariat for Liturgy at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C. In his new role, the 39-year-old priest will support the work...Read More

PHILADELPHIA – The Stations of the Cross and the sacrament of reconciliation served as solemn settings for the penitential service that Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia led to address the clergy sexual abuse crisis March 11 in the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul.Read More

In Father Patrick Carrion’s family, the religious life was always viewed as a genuine vocation. Growing up, he saw examples of religious life from his uncle, a priest, and his great aunt, a sister. Later, his older brother, Michael, would also become a priest.Read More

EMMITSBURG – In battle, inexperienced soldiers who prove willing and able to lead are soon at the head of their division. Today’s shortage of priests is no different – and an expert in Civil War battlefield leadership is imparting those lessons to a group of today’s seminarians.Read More

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. – In late July, carloads of curious Catholics caravanned north from their church to a mosque in the next county. Three dozen Catholics who regularly attend Mass at the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement’s Graymoor Spiritual Life Center in Garrison accepted a Muslim visitor’s invitation to attend services at Masjid Al-Noor, his...Read More

WASHINGTON – Two Pennsylvania girls took a day off of work to take part in an annual Food Fast that has become a Lenten tradition for many Catholic parishes.Read More

The Baltimore-based Xaverian Brothers have elected Brother Lawrence Harvey, C.F.X., to serve as the new general superior of the worldwide religious community, known formally as the Congregation of the Brothers of St. Francis Xavier.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church’s “new evangelization” effort is not an attempt to present the Gospel again to people who did not understand it the first time, but to present the Gospel in a way that makes sense and gives hope to modern men and women, said the general secretary of the Synod of...Read More