WASHINGTON — The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis welcomed the Vatican’s updated “Directory for Catechesis,” saying it is exciting to have “a fresh and focused tool to enhance our evangelization efforts in catechesis.”
The new...
Bishop Malooly announces the following appointments. They are effective July 8, 2020, except where otherwise noted.
Retirement
The Reverend William F. Graney has requested and been granted retirement from active ministry in the Diocese of Wilmington.
Pastors
The Reverend Gregory M. Corrigan is...
Lauren DiSabatino, the assistant athletic director at Padua Academy, has been promoted to the top position, the school announced the evening of June 24. DiSabatino has been a member of the all-girls school's faculty and athletic administration for the...
When my old grandmother visited Virginia in the late 1960s, it was her first trip back since her family had migrated to the Midwest when she was a child near the turn of the 20th century.
Nevertheless, there were memories...
VATICAN CITY -- Everyone lives a life that is often inconsistent or a "contradiction" because people can be both a sinner and a saint, a victim and a tormentor, Pope Francis said.
No matter what one's situation is, people can...
SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco's archbishop said June 20 the "toppling and defacing" of a statue of St. Junipero Serra and other statues in the city's Golden Gate Park is the latest example of some people using the current...
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's bishops pledged to help the people affected by an earthquake in southern Oaxaca state that left at least five dead.
"We put ourselves under the protective mantle of our mother, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and at...
Sunday Scripture readings, June 28, 2020: Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1) 2 Kgs 4:8-11, 14-16
Psalm 89:2-3, 16-17, 18-19
2) Rom 6:3-4, 8-11
Gospel: Mt 10:37-42
Welcoming the ordinary, recognizing the extraordinary
In this month of June, the church has returned to Ordinary Time...
PHILADELPHIA -- Two Black Catholic pastors in Philadelphia say their parishes are drawing strength from the Eucharist, prayer and a rich spiritual heritage in the fight against racism.
"St. Katharine Drexel used to say, 'We go in to go out,'"...
WASHINGTON -- The head of the Catholic Health Association has urged President Donald Trump to reconsider his decision to pull the United States out of the United Nations' World Health Organization.
"Withdrawing from the organization at the height of the...