WILMINGTON — Father James Kirk has celebrated a year-opening Mass at St. Mary Magdalen School a few times in his 11 years at the parish, so the one at which he presided on Sept. 11 wasn’t terribly different. But...
WILMINGTON — Brandon Harvath, who has been serving as interim president of St. Francis Healthcare since late July, has been named president and chief operating officer on a permanent basis. Harvath will oversee all operating functions of the hospital,...
JERUSALEM — Catholic leaders in the Holy Land expressed astonishment that a large group of evangelical Christians from the U.S. received visas to come to Israel to help with the grape harvest in West Bank settlements, while Catholic institutions...
WASHINGTON — The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests and the Catholic Mobilizing Network said they strongly object to an award the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast organizers plan to present to U.S. Attorney General William Barr during the annual breakfast,...
The Jesuit-run Central American University in El Salvador welcomed the verdict of a Spanish court, which convicted a former Salvadoran colonel for the murder of five Jesuit priests in 1989.
The verdict was "an extraordinary service to the truth" from...
DOVER -- Holy Cross Catholic Church in Dover is 150-years-old.
That doesn't make it the oldest church in the diocese, but it is very close. The normally festive activities for such an anniversary were tempered by the current pandemic, although...
MANCHESTER, England -- Catholic bishops said they were disappointed by figures showing abortions in England and Wales were at their highest recorded level.
The statistics released Sept. 10 by the Department of Health revealed that 109,836 abortions were performed in...
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Megan Kreft, a young Catholic physician assistant in the Portland area, hopes her story of being fired by a Catholic medical group for wanting to practice her faith in the medical field will help others struggling...
Among the myriad changes COVID-19 has brought, perhaps one of the most difficult has been the effect on our ministries. Many of the ways we traditionally served in our parishes are no longer possible, which may leave us wondering...
By definition, trauma is a painful experience that disturbs and distresses the one who experiences it; it causes us to believe that we are fundamentally unsafe and constantly at risk, even in environments that may have felt safe before....