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MEXICO CITY — A Mexican archdiocese has disavowed people posing as priests during the coronavirus pandemic. The Archdiocese of Toluca, west of Mexico City, said the priests were not in proper standing, but had targeted people wanting to celebrate Mass...
For the first time since coronavirus shut down high school athletics in mid-March, athletes across the state stepped onto the fields or into the gymnasiums of their schools on Sept. 28. It was the first day of fall practice...
The students at St. Peter Cathedral School in Wilmington held a prayer service on Sept. 28 to celebrate St. Vincent de Paul's feast day which was Sept. 27. Sister JoAnne Goecke, Jane Manley, principal, and Father Joseph W. McQuaide IV,...
The Saint Thomas More Society of the Diocese of Wilmington is hosting the annual Red Mass at St. Mary Magdalen Church on Sunday, Oct. 11 at 3 p.m. Bishop Malooly will be the celebrant and all are welcome to attend via...
WASHINGTON -- If Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court, she will be the first Notre Dame Law School graduate to sit on the bench of the nation's highest court and the only sitting justice with...
VATICAN CITY  -- The Apostleship of the Sea is celebrating its 100th anniversary and changing its name to "Stella Maris," the Latin title of Mary, Star of the Sea, and the name by which most of the Catholic centers...
WASHINGTON -- Eight days after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, President Donald Trump announced Sept. 26 that Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a judge on the Chicago-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, is...
In our backyard is a solitary Liquid Amber tree (liquidambar) that from spring through summer produces a gorgeous bounty of green leaves, providing welcome shade and beauty. Then at the end of summer, the leaves begin to change color, turning...
In "Hurrahing in Harvest" the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins revels in the marvelous elements of nature that herald the arrival of autumn. All his life, Father Hopkins discerned divine beauty in the beautiful things on earth, and autumn...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Catholic Church's observance of October as Respect Life Month "is a time to focus on God's precious gift of human life and our responsibility to care for, protect and defend the lives of our brothers...