As we mark the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote, for most it will not be a shock to learn that the Catholic Church was not out front in...
If you've ever read about someone suffering the ravages of a hunger strike and the violence of forced feeding, you have an insight into what the women who secured the right to vote for American females had to go...
FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Ending three years of legal dueling, Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill announced Aug. 20 that Planned Parenthood has conceded defeat in a lawsuit that challenged a state law requiring women to undergo an ultrasound at...
Gearing up for the start of the school year, Catholic school administrators in the Diocese of Wilmington held their annual August meeting last week at Christ the Teacher School and St. Margaret of Scotland Church in Glasgow.
Principals and administrators...
My son's pediatrician had one piece of advice at his nine-month checkup: baby-proof our home. "Secure bookshelves to walls, cover electrical outlets, put up gates and get safety locks for cabinets," he said. "And bring everything along to Grandma...
WILMINGTON — Samantha Varano has spent the entirety of her 18 years in education in public schools, but she is excited to begin a new venture at the Lower School at Ursuline Academy — and to be closer to...
CLEVELAND -- Prayers offered by a pair of prominent Catholics during the closing night of the Democratic National Convention focused on addressing the needs of people on the margins of society and a planet facing environmental catastrophe.
The prayers from...
WASHINGTON — As part of what seems to be a new trend for the Supreme Court, it will once again take up a religious liberty case in its new term with oral arguments Nov. 4 in a case about...
WHEELING, W.Va. — Bishop Michael J. Bransfield, former head of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, was told to publicly apologize to West Virginia Catholics and repay the diocese $441,000.
The Congregation for Bishops in Rome reached this decision on how Bishop...
VATICAN CITY — Given the many criminal organizations and gangs worldwide that have distorted the true role and image of Mary, a pontifical academy has unveiled a new department dedicated to fighting “this deviant spirituality.”
The Pontifical Marian International Academy...