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MILLTOWN — Carly Maxton and Olivia Datilio combined to strike out 14 and allowed just one hit as Saint Mark’s softball defeated Brandywine, 12-0, in five innings on May 6. Maxton, a senior, struck out all nine batters she faced....
A Catholic hospital in Tulsa, Okla., said the federal government has presented it with a choice to either extinguish a candle in its chapel's sanctuary or risk its ability to treat patients covered by Medicare, Medicaid or the Children's...
NEW YORK — Sadness, relief and hope accompanied the April 13 decision by the Sisters of Charity of New York to embark on a "path to completion," according to Sister Donna Dodge, president of the congregation founded by St....
VATICAN CITY — Meeting a group of pilgrims from the Italian diocese his father's family came from, Pope Francis said the family "remains a key value" even though it is "a reality that has changed so much and continues...
A possible Eucharistic miracle in Connecticut is now under investigation by the Vatican. Archbishop Leonard P. Blair told a Hartford television news station May 2 that the Dicastery (formerly Congregation) for the Doctrine of the Faith will examine whether an...
Bishop Bernabé de Jesús Sagastume Lemus of the Diocese of San Marcos, Guatemala, will arrive in the Diocese of Wilmington on May 6 for a weeklong visit throughout Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland as part of the...
Q: A friend is in a relationship where his fiancée won't sign a prenuptial agreement because she thinks it would make the marriage is invalid. It could be grounds for annulment. "For richer and for poorer" etc. What is...
ROME  -- The Pontifical International Marian Academy has created a commission to study and monitor cases of alleged Marian apparitions and other mystical phenomena. The new "observatory" or monitoring body was officially inaugurated at the academy in Rome April 15...
By Sam Lucero CHAMPION, Wis.  -- A Marian shrine in rural northeast Wisconsin, the only shrine in the United States to be designated by the Catholic Church as an approved Marian apparition site, is changing its name. During a press conference...
WILMINGTON — Area residents in need of end-of-life care, along with their caregivers, will soon have a place close to home providing that service. Delaware Hospice cut the ribbon at its eight-bed unit inside St. Francis Hospital in Wilmington...

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