Father Dennis G. Volmi, a priest of the Diocese of Wilmington who spent many years as a military chaplain, died June 28 in Milford, where he lived after retiring from active ministry. He was 71.
A native of Kearny, N.J.,...
HERNDON, Va. — Olivia Gans Turner has been a prominent pro-life speaker for years, but it didn’t always come easy.
“I hated public speaking, and almost failed my public speaking class” in college, she said.
But speaking out about pro-life issues...
VATICAN CITY — Modern popes have been clear voices for peace, but Pope Francis is moving closer to a broad embrace of nonviolence and a declaration that modern warfare is so deadly and sophisticated that the traditional “just war”...
WASHINGTON — The chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life and international policy committees have urged the House Appropriations Committee and all members of Congress “to protect taxpayers from having to pay for the evil of abortion, and to instead...
WILMINGTON — Since its founding in 1869, St. Paul Church in Wilmington has been the site of many marriages, and after a year’s delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic, many of those couples gathered at the church to celebrate...
Catholic Forum, the weekly radio program/podcast produced by the Diocese of Wilmington’s Office of Communications, will focus the first three programs of July 2021 on Bishop-elect William Koenig and his ordination and installation as the Tenth Bishop of Wilmington.
The...
"Sometimes we are starving to see every bit of what is right in front of us," Brian Doyle wrote in a prose-poem that appears in a collection of his writings titled "One Long River of Song." The book includes...
One surprising note of the past year is how many of us got into bird-watching! I remember old sitcoms from my childhood where a bird-watcher was its very own special type of nerd. They wore khaki shorts, knee socks,...
Benedictine Father Wulfstan Francis Clough, a monk of St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa., marks the 25th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood in 2021. Father Wulfstan is a native of Wilmington.
He is the son of the late...
WASHINGTON — A page on the website of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops answers a series of questions regarding the bishops’ vote to approve drafting a document on the Eucharist during their spring general assembly June 16-18.
Presented in...