Newark Advocate faith columnist Mark Katrick discusses the symbolism, importance and prevalence of the cross during the Lenten season.

I knew when I opened the door into what used to be a garage and proceeded downstairs that I was making a mistake. Among my husband’s collection of tools, there it was: a fat Norway rat. It looked at ...

If anyone had been standing just beyond the closed bathroom door — and there are a lot of snoops and perverts roaming the ...

There isn’t one right way to handle safety and security. I’ll back an unlocked-door person and a deadbolt-dogs-and-alarms person. We bring our own risk tolerances, histories and environmental ...

He walked from the scraggly neighborhood where he lived with his parents and eight siblings in a rural town named Sand Hills in Georgia to the pristine greenery next door. The little boy had ...