WILMINGTON – St. Hedwig Parish found out during Holy Week that it would not be able to host its annual Polish Festival on the Wilmington riverfront this year, but a member of the committee that works year-round on the...
VATICAN CITY — Migrants are not a threat to a nation’s culture, traditions and values, Pope Francis said.
Every nation is a product of immigration and the integration of diverse peoples, united by specific values, cultures and “healthy traditions,” he...
Third Sunday of Easter
Cycle C
1) Acts 5:27-32, 40-41
Psalm 30:2, 4-6, 11-13
2) Rv 5:11-14
Gospel: Jn 21:1-19
Cast out your nets
Think of a time when you were in the presence of a well-known public figure. Perhaps it was a pope, a bishop,...
WILMINGTON – Salesianum put together a three-run rally with two outs in the fifth inning to overcome a 2-0 deficit, and the Sals opened May with a 4-2 win over St. Mark’s in prime time at Frawley Stadium. The...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Jockey Mike Smith, a Catholic who rode Justify last year to a Triple Crown victory, prays before every race, but he doesn't pray to win.
The 145th Run for the Roses on May 4, when he will...
My buddy Dennis was the glue.
We had a couple of hundred volunteers at our parish festival every year. Some, like Dennis, were longtime, year-in and year-out stalwarts who had their own corner of the festival responsibilities that they could...
It was the Tuesday after Easter, and the priest who was celebrating Mass for our group of volunteers at an inner-city Jesuit middle school was practically bursting with joy.
"Alleluia," he exclaimed loudly, not just once but many times.
We were,...
CLAYMONT – Jake Fallers' two-run home run in the bottom of the fourth inning gave Archmere a lead it would not relinquish in a 5-2 win over Wilmington Charter in Diamond State Athletic Conference baseball on April 30.
Auks starting...
CLAYMONT – Padua's bats were hotter than the spring sun on the afternoon of April 30, as the Pandas rolled to a 20-0 win in five innings in nonconference softball at Archmere. The Pandas started the onslaught early, and...
WASHINGTON — Patrick Creadon, who made the new documentary “Hesburgh” about Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh, the priest who led the University of Notre Dame for 35 years, said that film wouldn’t have been possible had it not been...