WASHINGTON — Abortion not only goes against the dignity of every living being and is rooted in violence and misogynistic notions of male superiority, but political solutions, in the current divided climate, can be troublesome as well.
Those were among...
WILMINGTON – Howard trailed Ursuline early in the teams' nonconference girls basketball game on Jan. 16, but the Lady Wildcats parlayed a strong first-half finish into a dominating third quarter on the way to a 40-32 win.
A mid-range jumper...
WILMINGTON — Cindy Mann, a longtime educator and administrator in the Diocese of Wilmington, announced her retirement as principal at Padua Academy on Jan. 16. This is Mann’s 10th year at Padua. She will step down at the end...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of three women and recognized the martyrdom of 14 religious sisters who were killed during the Spanish Civil War.
The pope formally recognized a miracle needed for the canonization of Blessed...
WASHINGTON — When it comes to speaking her mind, Abby Johnson never holds back. Affable in a way usually described as down-home, as the mother of seven children, she finds that a certain bluntness suits her best.
It’s the only...
SAO PAULO — Church representatives working with immigrants and refugees criticized Brazil’s planned withdrawal from a global agreement to safeguard migrant people.
The Brazilian bishops’ conference and a priest who directs a migrant studies center that assists migrants said the...
WASHINGTON — For nearly three months, parishioners at St. Peter Catholic Church in Cameron, Wisconsin, were praying for the safe return of one of their own — 13-year-old Jayme Closs.
When parishioners heard the news that she had escaped her...
WASHINGTON — Two federal judges temporarily blocked the government from putting into effect new rules that would expand the exemption to the federal contraceptive mandate to the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious employers.
The decisions came in...
ROME — After weeks of confusion and consternation, Rome’s mayor told the Vatican newspaper that Rome Caritas would benefit not only from the coins tourists throw in the Trevi Fountain, but from coins tossed in any of the city’s...
WASHINGTON -- The conclusion reached by a Pennsylvania grand jury that six of the state's Catholic dioceses acted "in virtual lockstep" to cover up abuse allegations and dismiss alleged victims over a 70-year period starting in 1947 is "inaccurate,"...