The 441st legislative session of the Maryland General Assembly began Jan. 8 with legislators, advocates and members of the public converging on the state capital to mark the start of 90 days of state policymaking.
Maryland’s annual legislative session runs...
The results of the 2019 Annual Catholic Appeal in the Diocese of Wilmington show 14,305 donors pledged $5,125,809, surpassing the campaign’s $4,775,000 goal by 7.34 percent.
Tallies were announced this week by the diocesan Office of Development, which noted collections...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis named Francesca Di Giovanni, a longtime Vatican official, as an undersecretary in the Vatican's foreign ministry office, making her the first woman to hold a managerial position at the Vatican Secretariat of State.
The Vatican...
“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: Emma Jo Szczerba
HOMETOWN: Wilmington
PARISH: St. Mary...
WILMINGTON — The battle between two of Delaware’s top forwards was fairly even, but Padua picked up the necessary secondary scoring to go along with a lot of airtight defense in a 45-32 win over Saint Mark’s in Catholic...
VATICAN CITY -- At the request of retired Pope Benedict XVI, his name will be removed as co-author of a book defending priestly celibacy, said Cardinal Robert Sarah, the Vatican official who coordinated work on the book.
"Considering the polemics...
PIKESVILLE, Md. — U.S. Sens. Benjamin Cardin and Christopher Van Hollen, both Maryland Democrats, joined Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore and other local faith leaders to call for increased federal funding to strengthen security at religious sites amid...
WASHINGTON — The mission and foundation of Catholic education are directly related to evangelization, said the head of the National Catholic Educational Association.
Catholic schools are obligated to evangelize simply because that is the core and mission of the Catholic...
When a place has been around 190 years, it’s tempting to say “if these walls could talk,” you would know everything you need to know about it.
Sister Donna Smith has that covered.
It was 1830 when the order founded by...
PIKE CREEK — Archmere’s girls basketball team might have been hitting from three-point territory and scored nearly 60 points at McKean on Jan. 13, but the Auks’ big victory was largely due to their defense. The Auks did not...