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WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration recently announced it would take new actions aimed at preventing the labor exploitation of migrant children released from U.S. custody, saying there has been an increase in such exploitation. The departments of Labor and Health...
Blunt remarks by New York City Mayor Eric Adams at a Feb. 28 interfaith breakfast made waves amid critics' accusations of intolerance. However, some Catholic leaders praised the mayor's remarks about the importance of faith to society as being...
“My sweetest joy is to be in the presence of Jesus in the holy sacrament. I beg that when obliged to withdraw in body, I may leave my heart before the holy sacrament.” — St. Katharine Drexel To help the...
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Chants of "United" followed by "for Life" echoed in the Minnesota Capitol Feb. 28 in St. Paul as pro-life advocates gathered by the hundreds in the rotunda and then fanned out to visit with lawmakers...
The Diocese of Albany, New York, has placed a hold on parish celebrations of Mass with the 1962 Roman Missal, the older usage of the Roman rite, commonly called the "traditional Latin Mass." The celebration of the older usage,...
MILLTOWN — Saint Mark’s girls basketball team fell behind Dover, 4-0, early in the first round of the DIAA state basketball tournament, but the 14th-seeded Spartans used stellar defense to stifle the No. 19 Senators in a 37-13 victory...
WILMINGTON — Expectant mothers who are in search of more detailed information about their babies now have a new tool at their disposal. "A Door of Hope" pregnancy center in Wilmington received a new ultrasound machine from the Delaware State...
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey defended a state law restricting abortion in most circumstances from a legal challenge brought by the state's lone abortion facility in federal court. After the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Dobbs v....
Among Catholics, the sacrament of matrimony is in freefall. Over 50 years between 1969 and 2019, Catholic marriages declined 69% even as the Catholic population increased by nearly 20 million, according to Georgetown University's Center for Applied Research in...
“A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.” — St. Pio of Pietrelcina To help the faithful observe Lent in the Diocese of Wilmington, this year’s...

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