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NEWARK — The familiar phrase attached to law enforcement is “protect and serve,” and on May 25, recruits from Delaware’s Basic Officer Training Course put the second half of that into practice. As has become the custom in the...
Retiring TV news icon Jim Gardner recalled his dozens of milestone dispatches from the Vatican and reports on great papal events around the world as he was honored May 26 with the award named for the Philadelphian who became...
WILMINGTON  — Seamus Oliver, a senior at Salesianum School, has been named one of 40 recipients of the Jefferson Scholarship at the University of Virginia, where he will begin collegiate studies in the fall. The scholarship is awarded by...
VATICAN CITY  -- Pope Francis and Ukrainian families in Rome will gather May 31 before a statue of Mary, Queen of Peace, to recite the rosary for peace in Ukraine and in other places at war. Pope Benedict XV had...
NEWARK — Water Is Life Kenya (WILK) recently received a $180,000 grant from the Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities, which is headquartered in Wilmington. The grant, which will be paid in equal installments, will support the WASH program that...
"Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid." Jesus spoke these words to his disciples (Jn 14:27) at the Last Supper, when he himself had every reason to be afraid of what was to come over the next 24...
The word "fear" has such a negative connotation to us. We fear our kids getting hurt. We fear spiders. We fear failure. We fear a tragic and untimely death. In other words, we fear the things that we don't...
The other day, my daughter and I visited the Red Cross office to donate blood. Afterward, me munching the little bag of popcorn I was offered to ward off dizziness, we agreed we'd done a modest "civic duty" that day. Civic...
WASHINGTON  -- Several U.S. bishops spoke out against the easy accessibility to guns in the country following a May 24 rampage that left at least 19 children and two of their elementary school teachers dead in Uvalde, Texas. "Don't tell...
2022 Summer Weekend Mass Guide Delaware Atlantic Vacation Area Lewes, St. Jude the Apostle, 152 Tulip Drive, 302-644-7300 Saturday 4 p.m. in church Sunday 7, 8:30, 10:30 a.m. Rehoboth Beach, St. Edmond, King Charles & Laurel Streets, 302-227-4550 Saturday in church: 4...

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