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VATICAN CITY -- Violence against women is "a social scourge that is also linked to cultural attitudes, ingrained mentalities and prejudices," so education, prevention and swifter justice are needed to end it, Pope Francis said. Noting the commemoration Nov. 25...
MILLTOWN — Saint Mark’s had an answer every time Red Lion made a move when the two teams met on Nov. 26 in the semifinal round of the DIAA 2A football tournament. The Spartans, seeded second in the 12-team...
A St. Elizabeth tradition continues this week in Wilmington. Popular longtime DJ/entertainer Jerry Blavat, the Geator with the Heater, makes his return to St. Elizabeth Grant Hall, 800 S. Clayton St. on Dec. 2. The Christmas Dance Party runs from 7...
WILMINGTON — All season, Archmere has been able to put points on the board on their way to a 7-2 regular season. But on Nov. 26 at Abessinio Stadium, the Auks turned up the defense, pitching a shutout in...
WILMINGTON — St. Elizabeth’s football team managed to defeat Indian River last week in the DIAA Class 1A quarterfinal round without a healthy Quasim Benson, the workhorse running back who scored more than 30 touchdowns this season. Benson’s status was...
It was a sunny and unseasonably warm Tuesday morning in early November when the latest line of customers formed outside St. Patrick’s Center in Wilmington. The warm weather wouldn’t last. By the end of the month, low temperatures had dipped...
WASHINGTON -- With the pro-life landscape shifting to the states after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, events in the Washington Archdiocese connected to the annual March for Life in the nation's capital will have a...
WILMINGTON — Since 2005, 99 young men and women have received financial assistance from the St. Patrick’s Day Society to attend Catholic high schools, and the sole fundraiser for the Father James Trainor Memorial Scholarship Fund is an annual...
WASHINGTON -- The Diocese of Oakland, California, issued a statement of support for those suffering after a Nov. 19 attack on an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado. The diocese also clarified that comments made by one of its deacons on Twitter...
WASHINGTON -- In the days since four University of Idaho students were found brutally slain Nov. 14, the Catholic parish that serves the university and the community of Moscow, Idaho, is mourning with and praying for the victims, their...

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