WASHINGTON — Legislation in Congress intends to direct more money to local initiatives to stop what the bill’s backers call an “epidemic” of suicide by veterans.
The Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act of 2019 is meant to blunt what...
WASHINGTON -- Catholics' hunger for a moral vocabulary in the final two months of the presidential race is unlikely to be successfully addressed by either nominee.
Other than the terror of COVID-19, there appears to be no single issue to...
VATICAN CITY -- The common good -- and not political or economic gain -- should be at the heart of the race to find a vaccine for COVID-19, Pope Francis said.
During his weekly general audience Sept. 9, the pope...
On Saturday, Sept. 12, local residents will gather to remind the community that abortion is not just a political issue. They will be marking the eighth annual National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children with a memorial service at...
“One of Us” is brief snapshot of people who support the church in various ways in the Diocese of Wilmington. We will regularly feature people who may be recognizable within their parish communities.
NAME: Celinda Carr
HOMETOWN: Stevensville, MD
PARISH : St. Christopher
What does...
WILMINGTON — Father John McVoy has been appointed administrator of St. Joseph Parish on French Street in Wilmington, effective Sept. 14. He succeeds Franciscan Father Paul Williams. The Holy Name Province announced in January that its priests, who staffed...
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Although the only Catholic special-needs school in Georgia began the new school year at the end of July, classes at Immaculate Conception Catholic School essentially never stopped since the school works on a year-round model.
For the...
September 8, 2020
The Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Twelfth Anniversary of my installation as Bishop of Wilmington
Dear Friends in Christ,
Each of us are called as Catholics and as citizens to active participation in the political...
BRISBANE, Australia — A new law requires priests in the state of Queensland to break the seal of confession to report child sex abuse to police or face three years in jail.
The law was passed by Queensland Parliament Sept....
VATICAN CITY — Young Catholics are giving the church a valuable lesson in the real meaning of “synodality,” Pope Francis wrote.
“They have asked us in a thousand ways to walk alongside them — not behind them or ahead of...