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Athletes at three high schools in the Diocese of Wilmington will have new or improved facilities waiting for them when pracictice starts in August, while preparation work has started at the most anticipated athletic capital project. Baynard Stadium, the venerable...
Chemists and economists speak of equilibrium conditions, where the concentrations of reactants and products, or supply and demand, are in balance. If you have a bottle of soda water with the cap on, carbon dioxide bubbles up from the...
VATICAN CITY — After current supplies run out, Vatican City State will no longer be selling any single-use plastic items on its tiny territory. While the European Union pledged in May to ban single-use plastic starting in 2021, the Vatican...
WASHINGTON — The Pew Research Center's annual report on restrictions on religion worldwide showed the United States had the worst scores in the Americas in three of the eight categories Pew surveyed. The U.S. scores in five of the eight...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced July 15 it would begin implementing the Trump administration’s “Protect Life Rule” to bar Title X family funds from being used for promoting or providing abortion as family...
OCEAN CITY, Md. -- For the last two decades, the local Knights of Columbus have been dishing up hot crabs, cold beer and a beautiful view every Tuesday night. Knights of Columbus Council 9053 hosts a crab feast and seafood...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The last time Poor Clare Sister Rose Marie of the Queen of Angels hugged her mom or other family members was in 1994 when she made her solemn profession of vows to her religious order. In June,...
On March 13, 2013, Pope Francis stepped onto a balcony in St. Peter's Square to greet the people of God. In his first public act as pope, he offered not only a greeting but also a lesson on the...
"Look at this one!" During an in-flight press conference while returning to Rome after a one-day, April 2016 visit to the Moria refugee camp on the Greek isle of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea, Pope Francis held up a picture...
In these times, it is good to reflect once again on the parable of the good Samaritan (Lk 10:25-37) because along our southern border the mercy and compassion urged by Jesus can result in criminal charges that can lead...