WILMINGTON — Ephiphany Sunday is a big day at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Wilmington. Each year, the parish’s choral program presents “Amahl and the Night Visitors” by Italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti. But its future at the...
Bishop Malooly brought Christmas greetings and interacted with residents of Bayard House in Wilmington after a prayer service Dec. 17. at the chapel at St. Francis Hospital.
Bayard House is a residential maternity home for at-risk pregnant women and their...
WILMINGTON — Salesianum held a 10-point lead over the Bullis School (Md.) late in the third quarter of the teams’ basketball matchup Dec. 19 at Father John Birkenheuer Gymnasium, but the wheels fell off for the Sals after that....
If you were mourning a loved one during the holidays 30 years ago, you may have hung a special ornament on your tree, placed a wreath on their headstone at the cemetery or remembered them during a religious service. ...
ROME — Sister Mercy Muthoni would often suffer sleepless nights when she heard from the Cameroonian girls she helped escape human trafficking in Kuwait.
They’d call to tell her they hadn’t eaten for days, or that one of them was...
While I can rattle off a long list of positive things about being raised in the Northeast (the quality of bagels, access to cultural events in big cities and proximity to the ocean top the list), an honest assessment...
VATICAN CITY — Before blessing a large resin cross constructed around a used orange life vest, Pope Francis insisted human beings have a “binding” moral obligation to save those whose lives are threatened, including the lives of migrants and...
By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK
The holiday panic of picking out the right gifts is upon us. Now comes the challenge deciding what best to give a beloved or dear friend.
Our materialist world is forever pointing us to worldly gifts as...
Sunday Scripture reading, Dec. 22, 2019
Fourth Sunday of Advent
1) Is 7:10-14
Psalm 24:1-6
2) Rom 1:1-7
Gospel: Mt 1:18-24
The mystery of Jesus as God and man
At Christmas, we are dealing with incomprehensibles.
The one through whom God brought everything into existence and gave...
JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Thousands of people attended the Dec. 17 funeral Mass for Detective Joseph Seals, the police officer fatally shot Dec. 10 at a cemetery in Jersey City just prior to the deadly attack at a kosher...