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A gathering of several hundred people nearly filled St. Margaret of Scotland Church Feb. 9 for the Annual Wedding Anniversary Mass in the Diocese of Wilmington. Bishop Koenig celebrated the Mass presented by the diocese Office for Marriage and Family....
Q: Can a Catholic receive holy Communion twice in one day? Also, is it possible to ask to receive Communion outside of Mass under normal circumstances, or is this something that is only possible for the sick? (Scarsdale, N.Y.) A:...
By Heidi Busse and Cory Busse, OSV News The great marriage myth of our time is that happy marriages "just happen." When we were first married, we -- like many young couples -- were under the impression that true love...
By Ava Lalor, OSV News It was a jarring moment when I realized I didn't love God. Or, rather, I didn't love God as I should -- simply because of who he is. The epiphany happened two years ago during a...
WILMINGTON – Old friends got together on Feb. 7 when Saint Mark's visited Salesianum for their annual basketball matchup. This year, in front of a raucous sellout crowd at Father Birkenheuer Gymnasium, the Sals used a big second quarter...
BRANDYWINE HUNDRED — Students at St. Mary Magdalen School in north Wilmington spent the Friday before the Super Bowl dressed in Philadelphia Eagles green — except for the one notable Kansas City Chiefs jersey — and marked the end...
WASHINGTON -- Paulette Harlow doesn't know how President Donald Trump came to know her name. He had mentioned her both during his presidential campaign last year and in his video message played at the March for Life rally in Washington...
Sunday Mass attendance in person at Catholic churches in the U.S. is back to pre-pandemic levels -- although just under one quarter of the nation's Catholics are in the pews on a regular weekly basis. The Center for Applied Research...
WASHINGTON  -- President Donald Trump said in remarks to the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 6 that he would create a task force, led by Attorney General Pam Bondi, to investigate "anti-Christian" bias in the federal government. In dual remarks at...
NEWARK — For Jake Norotsky, the fatigue he faced as a member of the United States Army came to a head one night as he prepared his helicopter for a mission. He saw a deadly spider and thought that...