VATICAN CITY — Sports can offer a unique witness of unity that can build a “bridge of peace” between men and women of different religions and cultures and promote solidarity, Pope Francis said.
In his first audience after restrictions to...
WASHINGTON -- Paycheck Protection Program loans to parishes did not meet the number of parishes, or the size of the loans, listed in some news reports, according to Patrick Markey, executive director of the Diocesan Fiscal Management Conference.
A Washington...
WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. -- Dr. Francis S. Collins, a geneticist and physician who is director of the National Institutes of Health outside Washington in Bethesda, Maryland, is the 2020 Templeton Prize Laureate.
Collins, who led the Human Genome Project to...
WASHINGTON -- Catholic advocates against the death penalty spoke out against Missouri's May 19 execution of a death-row inmate, Walter Barton, whose death by lethal injection was the first execution to happen during the pandemic.
So far, amid the coronavirus...
Public Masses may begin again in Delaware with daily Mass June 1 and weekend Masses June 6-7 as the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington is reopening churches in accordance with ease of restrictions aimed at limiting spread of coronavirus in...
WILMINGTON — It was lights, camera, graduation over the last week at St. Elizabeth School.
With the coronavirus pandemic wiping out traditional graduation ceremonies all over the country, the Wilmington school came up with a unique way to honor its...
“One of Us” is brief snapshot of people who support the church in various ways in the Diocese of Wilmington. We will regularly feature people who may be recognizable within their parish communities.
NAME: Josie Trevino
HOMETOWN: Denton, Md.
PARISH: St. Elizabeth of Hungary
What...
WASHINGTON — The coronavirus pandemic that has impacted the health and economy of the nation particularly dealt a blow to Catholic higher education, from the large universities with hefty endowments to smaller liberal arts schools.
Two articles posted online May...
LOS ANGELES — A blue-ribbon panel of Catholic doctors from some of the nation’s top research hospitals and universities said churches should be able to reopen “as safely as other essential services,” after being shut down for more than...
WASHINGTON — Long before graduation ceremonies are over, college administrators usually have an eye on the upcoming fall semester. And this year, even with virtual commencement ceremonies, the look to the next academic year is inevitable.
Except this year is...