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Joanna Wicks may have taken center stage by being named Miss Delaware last weekend, but St. Thomas More Academy shared the spotlight. Wicks and first runner-up Rebecca Gasperetti both started teaching at St. Thomas More this past school year. They...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. bishops “cannot, in good faith, endorse” an immigration bill submitted by the House’s Republican leadership, said Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of Austin, Texas, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Migration. Bishop Vasquez said the bill would...
PHILADELPHIA – About the only things hotter than the temperature on the morning of June 18 were the bats of the Delaware North baseball team. The all-star team bashed 22 hits and scored in every at bat in a...
WILMINGTON — It was a very busy time for Father Matthew Mary of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross when he visited his hometown the first week of June. On June 2, at the Cathedral of St. Paul in Birmingham,...
TRENTON, N.J. -- No motive "can justify these ongoing, seemingly relentless acts of gun violence plaguing our cities," Bishop David M. O'Connell of Trenton said after a mass shooting took place in the early morning hours of June 17...
Joanna Wicks, Miss Wilmington, was named Miss Delaware 2018 Saturday evening at Cape Henlopen High School in Lewes. She will represent Delaware at the Miss America competition in September. Joanna was the first runner-up for the Carol Maclary Excellence in Education award...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- New medical directives governing health care partnerships and revisions to the charter on the protection of young people were approved during the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' spring general assembly. During their June 13-14 meeting, the...
By Laura Kelly Fanucci Beer. Golf. TV. Mowing. Burping. Fishing. According to greeting cards in the store aisles, this is all that modern fathers care about. Father's Day is clogged with lowbrow stereotypes. Dad just wants to hog the remote control, crack...
WASHINGTON -- A group of Catholic high school friends has kept in touch -- literally -- since graduating more than 30 years ago from Gonzaga Preparatory School in Spokane, Washington. The way they've stayed connected -- through essentially continuing a...