“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: Bob Gay
HOMETOWN: Bridgeville
PARISH: Our Lady of Lourdes
What is...
WASHINGTON -- Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, thinks it is a good idea for schools to reopen and for children to return to school in the fall.
"It's not risk of school openings...
Days before the coronavirus began to alter everyday life in Delaware, officials from St. Francis Healthcare gathered in downtown Wilmington to introduce the new and improved St. Clare Medical Outreach Van. The primary-care medical practice on wheels had been...
Catholic Youth Ministry will move forward with its fall sports season, although a major component will be missing, and some other tweaks were made as coronavirus-related concessions. The announcement was made Aug. 11.
The state still has not approved football...
NEW ORLEANS -- Kenneth St. Charles, president of St. Augustine High School in New Orleans, has toiled in fundraising and development for nearly a quarter century.
But nothing in his previous experience of dealing with foundations and philanthropists prepared him...
For its first 50 years, Roncalli High School in Indianapolis had the nickname "Rebels," but school officials announced this summer that they will replace this with a new name to better reflect the school's Catholic identity and mission.
School leaders...
CLEVELAND — The coronavirus relief measures put in place by President Donald Trump Aug. 8 are not expected to provide significant relief to people most in need of assistance because of the pandemic-induced recession, political observers said.
While rooted in...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A suspended priest in the Diocese of Sacramento has been automatically excommunicated because he continued to celebrate Mass despite being instructed not to do so by Bishop Jaime Soto, and he also has refused to acknowledge...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Scripture really came alive Aug. 9 for Catholics in Charlotte.
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake originating near Sparta was felt in Charlotte a little after 8 a.m. Sunday -- just as parishioners at St. Gabriel Church were listening to...
AMMAN, Jordan -- Viewing the burned wasteland of the Beirut port, one's eye catches a grey concrete slab in the foreground. It bears this stark message scribbled by the Lebanese in black ink: "My Government Did This."
On Aug. 10,...