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CLAYMONT – Appoquinimink scored three times in the final two innings to complete a 4-3 comeback against Archmere in nonconference softball April 17 in Claymont. Mallory Weir brought home the eventual winning run on a groundout in the top...
thedialog.org is following the #CDOW150th as 135 people travel for a pilgrimage to France and Rome to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Diocese of Wilmington. TODAY'S DESTINATION (Day Two): Philly to London to Geneva to Annecy. HIGHLIGHTS: If patience is a...
VATICAN CITY  -- Retired Pope Benedict XVI had a "peaceful and familial" 91st birthday April 16, celebrating with his 94-year-old brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, who was visiting from Germany, the Vatican said. Pope Francis offered his early morning Mass for his...
MILTON – Desiree Downs thought more than the normal number of people were waiting when she pulled a food cooperative truck onto the parking lot of Catholic Charities’ office in the Dover area last month. Then she found out they...
thedialog.org is following the #CDOW150th as 135 pilgrims take off Monday, April 16 for a pilgrimage to France and Rome to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Diocese of Wilmington. TODAY'S DESTINATION (Day One): Church of the Holy Child, Naamans Road,...
OMAHA, Neb. (CNS) -- Each illustration took up to 20 hours, often done in the middle of the night after his family was asleep. And each was necessary for Eli Hernandez to complete his 30-page children's book, "Dearest Children: A...
VATICAN CITY -- Catholic universities are "called to be workshops of dialogue and encounter in the service of truth, justice and the defense of human dignity at every level," Pope Francis told a delegation from Pennsylvania's Villanova University. "It is...
VATICAN CITY  -- Sharply criticizing a failure to find nonviolent means of bringing peace to Syria and other parts of the world, Pope Francis appealed to world leaders to work for justice and peace. "I am deeply disturbed by the...
  ROME -- After circling a massive, crumbling public housing complex on the outskirts of Rome, Pope Francis had an emotional encounter with the neighborhood's children. Question-and-answer sessions with youngsters are a standard part of Pope Francis' parish visits. And, at...
Marriage existed long before Christianity, so we might ask ourselves: Did Christianity do anything to transform marriage, to make it distinct from what had come before? And in our cultural context today, we might ask ourselves a similar question: Is...