A Saint Mark’s High School graduate who has spent the last few years dispensing hope to women near her Florida home and beyond has offered some words of consolation and comfort to the Class of 2020. Dianne Silanskas Garvis,...
WASHINGTON — More than 4,400 allegations of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy were reported during the year ending June 30, 2019, a significant jump from the previous auditing period, according to a report on diocesan and eparchial...
As tensions continue to mount in the United States, law enforcement, police officers and first responders should not be disheartened and work to better themselves in service to their local community, said Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas.
Much...
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...