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The annual Mother's Day sale of red roses by Birthright of Wilmington has been canceled for this year. The sale of vibrant red roses scheduled for Sunday, May 10 is a spring tradition at many churches in the diocese, not...
The latest round of grants from the Delaware Community Foundation’s COVID-19 Strategic Response Fund benefited 13 nonprofit organizations, including Catholic Charities. A total of $233,000 was distributed in the fifth round of funding. Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Wilmington...
PHOENIX -- The suspension of public Masses, the closing of schools and the limiting of public gatherings has helped slow the spread of COVID-19, but it also has resulted in financial and business challenges for churches and schools in...
VATICAN CITY -- Praying for families around the world who have been restricted to their homes because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis included mention of victims of domestic violence. "Sometimes there is domestic violence. Let us pray for families...
MUNICH -- In a newly published biography, Retired Pope Benedict XVI said the Catholic Church is threatened by a "worldwide dictatorship of seemingly humanist ideologies." He cited same-sex marriage, abortion and the "creation of humans in the laboratory" as...
MILLTOWN — Yard signs have become one of the more popular ways for schools to let their seniors know they aren’t forgotten. Saint Mark’s High School got in on the action this past weekend, distributing the signs during a...
BY FATHER GREG CORRIGAN God’s Love Wants All of Me and You How does one react to the news of a terminal diagnosis?  Fear, panic, overwhelming anxiety? The devastation that is brought on when a person receives word that they are...
May is usually a month crammed with celebrations on our calendars. We rush between graduations, first Communions, confirmations, showers for summer weddings or babies, Mother's Day brunches and Memorial Day barbecues. But now we find ourselves facing a very different...
VATICAN CITY -- Expressing his hopes for a vaccine against the coronavirus, Pope Francis also gave his support to an interreligious day of prayer and fasting for an end to the pandemic. After reciting the "Regina Coeli" prayer May 3,...
VATICAN CITY -- Priests and doctors who gave their lives caring for the spiritual and physical well-being of others during the coronavirus pandemic are like Jesus, the good shepherd, who laid down his life for his flock, Pope Francis...

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