BRANDYWINE HUNDRED — One of the hard-hit areas of education during the coronavirus pandemic has been the arts. Plays, musicals and concerts were canceled when schools shut down last spring, and even at those where students have returned, the...
WASHINGTON — While the annual March for Life in Washington is still scheduled for Jan. 29, the cross-country bus pilgrimages that have been at the heart of the event for decades are being decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Local events...
VATICAN CITY — After someone attending Pope Francis’ weekly general tested positive for COVID-19, the Vatican announced the audiences would return to being livestreamed without the presence of pilgrims and visitors.
In a statement published Oct. 29, the Vatican said...
Sunday Scripture readings, Nov. 1, 2020
Solemnity of All Saints
1) Rv 7:2-4, 9-14
Psalm 24:1-6
2) 1 Jn 3:1-3
Gospel: Mt 5:1-12
Strive for a saintly life
Holiness is one of the most powerful arguments for the truth of Christianity. The early Christians who lived...
Sister Virginia Peckham was not a Catholic or Christian as a youngster or young adult.
She was married and in her 50s when she began to have a conversion in 2004, first to the Baptist church and later to a...
WILMINGTON — Devon Green scored three touchdowns, and the Delaware Military Academy defense was impenetrable as it pitched a shutout in a 37-0 win over St. Elizabeth on Oct. 28 at Fusco Field on the DMA campus.
Green, the electric...
WILMINGTON — Newark Charter scored fewer than two minutes into its nonconference field hockey game against Ursuline on Oct. 28, and the Patriots controlled the action most of the way in a 4-0 win at Serviam Field. The Patriots...
WILMINGTON — Many of the approximately 180 residents of Ingleside Homes in Wilmington haven’t seen their families in more than six months, when the facility largely shut down due to coronavirus concerns. But thanks to a group of students...
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s bishops’ conference decried attacks on churches by demonstrators protesting a near-total ban on abortions by the country’s Constitutional Court and urged restraint from violence and dialogue.
Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan, conference president, acknowledged that the...
WASHINGTON — The Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Lexington issued a terse rebuke against those telling Catholics whom to vote for in the upcoming presidential election, and his criticism included other prelates.
Bishop John Stowe’s op-ed was published in...