NEWARK – St. Mark’s football team won the first game of its season this weekend, but it may be one of the strangest victories the Spartans have ever known. Certainly, new Spartans coach Joe Wright will never forget his...
WILMINGTON – Thrown a curveball a week before the regular season began, the Salesianum football team did not miss a beat. The Sals, with their expected third-string quarterback under center, used a powerful running game – led by four...
By Sister Constance Veit, LSP
As we endure these difficult days in the life of our Church, I’ve been thinking about the potential for committed Catholic women to bind wounds and buoy up the spirits of the faithful. Saint John...
CLAYMONT – Julia Kochie had 11 kills and 14 digs to lead Archmere past a determined Smyrna squad, 3-0, in the volleyball season opener for both teams Sept. 7 in Claymont. Set scores were 25-14, 25-17 and 26-24.
A large...
VATICAN CITY -- A top official from the Vatican Secretariat of State acknowledged allegations made by a New York priest in 2000 concerning Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, according to a letter obtained by Catholic News Service.
Father Boniface Ramsey, pastor...
Philadelphia native and 10-year Wilmington resident Father Barry R. Strong is no stranger to Rome, so he knows what he’ll be missing when he leaves Delaware to live in Italy in a couple of weeks.
“The calmness,” he said.
Father Strong...
WASHINGTON -- Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington encouraged archdiocesan parishes to participate in a six-week "Season of Healing" to counter what he called "confusion, disappointment and disunity" and to help bring about healing in the wake of recent...
The Ursuline volleyball team was thrilled to end the school’s championship drought last November. A lasting reminder hangs in the gymnasium, but the players are trying to look forward, not back.
“It was super-amazing to win and to get that...
When Salesianum takes the field Saturday night in the season opener against Concord, some things will be very familiar. It will be Baynard Stadium, under the lights, with a band. The team will be in its home blue uniforms...
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Cycle B
1) Is 35:4-7
Psalm 146:6-10
2) Jas 2:1-5
Gospel: Mk 7:31-37
Overcoming fear with faith
The deaf man in today's Gospel must have known fear. For his speech impediment ensured that he was alone and helpless.
He would have known...