WASHINGTON -- The Archdiocese of Washington and its Catholic Schools Office hailed the Aug. 3 emergency order by Maryland's governor to override a Montgomery County Health Department blanket directive that would have kept nonpublic schools from reopening for in-person...
CLEVELAND -- The path to true peace requires the world to abolish nuclear weapons, an American bishop and a Japanese archbishop said as the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings at the end of World War II approached.
Speaking during...
Father Leonard J. Blakely of the Diocese of Wilmington died Sunday, Aug. 2. He was 72.
Father Blakely was a Wilmington native and former pastor at St. Dennis, Galena, Md. He had also been pastor at Sacred Heart, Chestertown, Md.,...
DUBLIN -- Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Northern Ireland, has hailed political leader John Hume as a "paragon of peace" for his key role in bringing an end to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
Hume, 83, died early Aug. 3,...
CAMDEN, N.J. -- Citing "a precipitous decline" in revenue due to COVID-19, the Diocese of Camden announced July 31 it is putting a moratorium on any future decisions or payments to abuse survivors through its Independent Victim Compensation Program.
"Awards...
Diocese of Wilmington seminarian Brennan Ferris was admitted to candidacy at a ceremony July 28 and will be scheduled for ordination as a transitional deacon next May.
Ferris has completed 2nd Theology and is currently finishing a pastoral year assignment...
WASHINGTON -- In a 5-4 vote July 31, the Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for construction to continue on portions of the Trump administration's border wall with Mexico by declining to take up requests from environmental groups to stop...
It was more than four years since a transitional diaconate had been celebrated at Cathedral of St. Peter in the Diocese of Wilmington.
Like many important gatherings on the church calendar, the diaconate scheduled for May was postponed as Bishop...
VATICAN CITY -- An author with a long and close relationship to retired Pope Benedict XVI told a German newspaper that the 93-year-old retired pope is "extremely frail."
Peter Seewald, the author who has published four wide-ranging book-length interviews with...
VATICAN CITY -- Let Mary inspire and guide young people today, Pope Francis told participants at the annual International Youth Festival at the Marian shrine in Medjugorje.
Mary will always be "the great model of the church" because she is...