CHILDS, Md. – Father Hugh E. Duffy, a Delaware native and a member of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales for 68 years, died July 30. He would have celebrated his 89th birthday on Aug. 21.
Father Duffy was...
The Office for Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Wilmington has announced its plans to re-open its buildings for at least the beginning of the upcoming academic year. According to the plan, entitled “Forward in Faith,” instruction in its...
DAVENPORT, Iowa -- As Alicia Nava flipped through family photographs the morning of July 25, she said solemnly from behind a floral print mask, "We were taking precautions."
Three weeks before, she was in the hospital battling COVID-19, as were...
WASHINGTON -- Faith leaders and immigrant advocates have denounced the Trump administration's plan to reject first-time applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, and limit DACA renewals to one-year extensions instead of two.
Leaders of...
WASHINGTON -- Steven Millies, a scholar who explores the Catholic Church's relationship to politics, feels more optimistic today than he has in a long time about young people in this country voting in a national election.
The reason for his...
WILMINGTON — The weather outside may have been frightful, but it was a delightful evening at Ursuline Academy on July 30 as the school hosted its first Christmas in July parade on its Wilmington campus.
New Lower School principal Sam...
By Catholic News Service
IRONDALE, Ala. -- Two U.S. cardinals and the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have an urgent message for President Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress: The next emergency stimulus package must help tuition-paying...
PHILADELPHIA -- The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has paid out or approved over $50 million so far to 222 clergy sex abuse survivors, according to a new report from the Independent Reconciliation and Reparations Program.
IRRP was launched in November 2018...
ROME -- Public schools in Rome, like elsewhere in the world, are scrambling to ensure the safety of students and staff while also resuming classroom instruction.
The Diocese of Rome has offered to help with one big problem: finding enough...
Rich Joyce returned to Wilmington in 2015 after spending several years out of town with the Josephite priests and brothers, and shortly after returning to his hometown he bought a house two blocks from his boyhood parish, Christ Our...