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Pope Francis has appointed Auxiliary Bishop J. Gregory Kelly of Dallas as bishop of Tyler, Texas. The move comes just over a year after the pope removed Bishop Joseph E. Strickland in the wake of an apostolic visitation to that...
Q: I'm a longtime daily Mass-goer, and every year in the days leading up to Christmas we have that one Gospel reading that lists all the names of Jesus' ancestors. I can understand why things like this are included...
My family never watched "It's a Wonderful Life" when I was growing up. I saw it for the first time when I was around 30 years old, at a special Christmas screening at the Coronado Theater in Rockford, Illinois....
Apart from each other and family, two local parishioners in Delaware have three commitments: faith, community and Catholic education. So deep is their commitment to Catholic schools that they feel motivated to help make a Catholic education attainable to...
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden is nearing the end of his term in the White House with an all-time low approval rating, according to a new Marquette Law School Poll. The same poll found that while a majority of adults...
The Catholic Diocese of Wilmington 2025 Directory is hot off the press. Schools, parishes and others should get their orders in ASAP. A handy resource with up-to-date information on parishes, diocesan offices, priests, religious men and women, schools and organizations is...
WILMINGTON — St. Elizabeth’s girls basketball team played Dec. 18 without one starter for the entire game and another for most of it, but that didn’t deter them much in a 55-25 win over Appoquinimink at the St. E...
WILMINGTON — A suffocating pressure defense helped Conrad get back into its girls basketball game against Saint Mark’s, with the Red Wolves gradually erasing a 12-point deficit on the way to a 53-48 win over the Spartans on Dec....
Ronald R. Russo, who was principal of Saint Mark’s High School from 1977-95, died Dec. 16. He was 79. Russo was a New Jersey native who attended St. Joseph’s University and the University of Delaware, where he received an MBA....
Catholics in the U.S. offered steadfast support to those impacted by natural disasters throughout 2024, Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez of Philadelphia told OSV News. The archbishop, who chairs the board of directors for Catholic Relief Services, reflected on the impact...