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WILMINGTON — Brendan Kennealey, the first lay president of Salesianum School, will be stepping down at the end of the current academic year, the school has announced. Kennealey has been at the school for 10 years. According to Nicholas M....
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Whether Catholic voters favor a candidate most in line with their own basket of priority issues or whether they look for character and competency or just look to party affiliation, the Catholic electorate has...
WASHINGTON -- Authorities in El Paso, Texas, have apprehended a suspect who is said to have entered the border city's St. Patrick Cathedral Sept. 15 and destroyed an almost 90-year statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. "I am devastated at...
READING, Pa. — Sister Laetitia Okoniewski, 101, a member of the Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Third Order Regular of St. Francis, died Sept. 15 at St. Joseph Villa in Reading, Pa., where she had lived since 2014. Sister Laetitia grew...
ARLINGTON, Va. -- At a time when all people are yearning for a message of hope, Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington wants the church to be ready to use all manner of media to proclaim the good news...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit sided Sept. 14 with President Donald Trump's plan to end a particular immigration protection status that would have allowed people from six countries that have suffered disasters to...
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,...