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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...
Sunday Scripture readings, Aug. 2, 2020: Eighteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time 1) Is 55:1-3 Psalm 145:8-9, 15-16, 17-18 2) Rom 8:35, 37-39 Gospel: Mt 14:13-21 Nothing can separate us from God's love St. Paul makes a sweeping claim in today's second reading. Nothing can separate...
WILMINGTON — Daniel Sinnott, a longtime executive in the healthcare industry, will be leaving his position as president and chief executive officer of St. Francis Healthcare as of July 31. Brandon Harvath, the current chief operating officer at St....
The Mass for the transitional diaconate ordination of Michael Preston will be livestreamed on Sunday, Aug. 2 at 2 p.m. from the Cathedral of St. Peter. Bishop Malooly will be the main celebrant. Viewers can watch the livestream here, on the Diocese of...