Last year the parishes in the Diocese of Wilmington recorded 1,681 funerals with 417 of these being for cremated bodies. Of the 417 cremations, 200 were interred in one of our three diocesan cemeteries, Cathedral and All Saints in...
QUEENSTOWN – Veterans organizations and other groups place American flags on the graves of military veterans across the country for Memorial Day, but the Knights of Columbus have turned the flag laying into a ritual at St. Peter’s Cemetery...
WILMINGTON – St. Mark's girls lacrosse team fell behind Ursuline early in their DIAA state tournament semifinal on the afternoon of May 23, but the Spartans didn't panic. They got within three goals by halftime, then turned up the...
VATICAN CITY -- Although it is not unusual for a pope to set aside temporarily the limit of 120 cardinals under the age of 80, Pope Francis has done so in a way that could last for more than...
Led by senior Lydia Olivere, Padua clinched its seventh straight state outdoor track and field state championship May 21 and 22 at Dover High School. Olivere won three individual events as the Pandas captured the Division I championship.
Catholic schools...
WILMINGTON – Shirley Bounds has been the head of St. Elizabeth High School since 2004, but last month she found herself in a classroom, teaching Spanish.
For Bounds, that brought her back to where she was when she started at...
ADELAIDE, Australia -- Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaide, who faces a maximum penalty of two years in jail for failing to inform police about child sexual abuse allegations, said he will stand aside from his duties as archbishop while...
BALTIMORE -- The Baltimore Archdiocese said May 22 it has removed a 77-year-old priest from ministry after learning of allegations of child sexual abuse against him dating to the 1970s.
Father Luigi Esposito, pastor at Our Lady of Pompei Church...
JERUSALEM — Sometimes, news is not just what meets the eye on the TV screen or a social media post.
Catholic political analyst Wadie Abunasser noted that while neither Israel nor the Palestinian political movement Hamas is interested in starting...
Three Catholic schools are among the 24 who earned spots in the 2018 baseball state tournament, according to brackets released Tuesday night by the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association. The tournament was expanded from 20 teams in previous years.
St. Mark's...