Three educators and two administrators receive the Saint John Paul II Award for 25 or more years of dedicated service to Catholic Education in the Diocese of Scranton, including Alisia McNamee, of Saint John Neumann Regional Academy. Pictured, from left: Michele Long, assistant superintendent ...
About a week ago, I saw visions of a huge, uprooted tree from a symbolic hurricane that came through a city. I saw all types of people: all races, sizes, and nationalities. They were hanging on to the roots for dear life as if they would be destroyed if they would let go. These people were ...
A year after 17 North American missionaries were kidnapped in Haiti, beginning a two-month ordeal before they ultimately went free, the agency that sent them hasn’t made a permanent return, and several other international groups have also scaled back their work there. The kidnapping ...
The United Nations Executive Director of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, recently warned the global village we call home, with nearly eight billion of God’s people, that an urgent response is needed. He basically indicated the clock is ticking if we are to avoid massive starvation. In the well-documented article carried by the Williamsport Sun-Gazette (September 25), as first reported by The Associated Press in its interview with Mr. Beasley, the need for food stuffs worldwide now stands at “345 million” (approximately nine to ten percent of the global ...
All three went to prison as teenagers, serving life sentences, never thinking that they would leave, but through the work of the Yokefellows’ prison ministry they testify to lives changed through placing their trust in God. Doug Hollis shared how he had grown up in the church. “My ...
Inside my Sunday worship binder, I keep a handful of cards and notes that I have received over the last few years. Each one of them came at a significant time in my life. Inside one card, a friend wrote how much the previous Sunday’s service meant to her: the music, the Scripture passage. ...
