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WILMINGTON — Salesianum’s lacrosse team has faced off against some of the best teams in the country this season, and the Sals have prevailed each time. They had another anticipated battle on April 20, welcoming Pennsylvania power Radnor, and...
HOCKESSIN — Luke Filliben went three for three with a home run and three runs batted in, and the Sanford baseball team scored four times in the bottom of the sixth to pull away from St. Elizabeth in an...
Francis Eugene Donnelly, affectionately known as "Gene," 87, of Wilmington and Rehoboth, peacefully passed away on April 17, 2024, at St. Francis Hospital under the care of Delaware Hospice. Gene was born in Baltimore to the late Mary (Neck) and...
Featured speakers Rachel del Guidice and Laura Gies highlighted the annual banquet April 18 for Delaware Right to Life in Middletown. The two women have active roles on the front lines of the pro-life movement and spoke of their experience...
By any measure, Louis Anthony "Lou" Conter, a Catholic hero of World War II who died April 1 at his home in Grass Valley, California, at age 102, led a celebrated life. Conter's funeral Mass will be celebrated April 23...
INDIANAPOLIS -- Catholics will come to Indianapolis in the tens of thousands for the National Eucharistic Congress July 17-21 -- some as individuals, some as couples, some as groups. And some will come as families. "The church is a family of...
House Bill 140, which would legalize assisted suicide for Delaware residents facing a terminal illness, passed the House of Representatives on April 18 on a nearly party-line vote. The vote was 21 in favor and 16 opposed. Four legislators were...
Below is a speech delivered April 18 at the Catholic Charities Annual Tribute dinner by Xavier DeCaire, the longtime Catholic Charities board member who was presented with the Msgr. Thomas J. Reese Award. Approximately 10 years ago, I was asked...
By Kimberley Heatherington , OSV News When she died on the basement floor of a tiny San Jose, California, Pentecostal house church Sept. 24, 2021, the relatives of 3-year-old Arely Naomi Proctor Hernandez -- her mother, uncle and grandfather --...
At Easter morning brunch, one of my daughters brought me a beautiful bouquet of tulips. They were so welcome, and so extraordinary, that I took extra good care of them. I changed their water, recut their stems and used the...

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