WILMINGTON – A sellout crowd filled Father Birkenheuer Gymnasium on Dec. 11 to watch Salesianum host Wilmington Friends in early season basketball. Despite the size, it didn't get too loud until Paul Brown sank a free throw a few...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Leo XIV prayed for Mary's maternal intercession so that she would help nations avoid lies and hatred and instruct leaders to protect the dignity of all human life.
He also prayed that families find strength, young...
In 2023, my best friend was pregnant with her sixth child. It was a cesarean scar pregnancy, which for doctors is quite obvious: "Of course you'll terminate right? Your uterus may blow any minute and you'll orphan five kids....
TIJUANA, Mexico -- Antonia Brenner was twice divorced and had raised seven children when she gave up her comfortable life in Southern California to live in a small prison cell in the border city of Tijuana.
The onetime Beverly Hills...
VATICAN CITY -- For the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and for millions of other people as well, the Catholic Church's 2025 was primarily about the death of Pope Francis and the election of Pope Leo XIV.
In fact, the Wikimedia...
The words went out over a social media platform, made more poignant for the accompanying image of Pope Leo XIV consoling a weeping Lebanese woman.
I couldn't help thinking "perhaps the whole world needed it, and needs this pope, for...
By Tish Galu
St. Vincent de Paul Society
What would you do if an unexpected disaster hit the east coast? How would our diocese respond and where would we go for help?
There are more unexpected weather events happening every year across...
WASHINGTON -- In a Dec. 11 court filing, a federal judge in Maryland ordered the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national and Maryland resident at the center of a high-profile immigration case, from ICE custody "immediately."
Abrego Garcia's...
Nate Stromberg has been appointed the regional director of patient experience by Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, the health system that owns Saint Francis Hospital in Wilmington. Stromberg will be responsible for enhancing the company’s “compassionate, patient-centered care,” Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic...
PLYMOUTH, Mich. -- Since the October ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war, people in Palestine are living in abject ruin, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa said at a news conference in Plymouth, a western suburb of Detroit.
"The only difference is that we...