SCRANTON, Pa. — Sister Dolores M. Filicko, who ministered for a few years in the Diocese of Wilmington, died Aug. 18 at Our Lady of Peace Residence in Scranton, Pa. She was 96 and had been a member of...
Today, Aug. 21, is the feast of Pope Saint Pius X, also known as the Pope of the Blessed Sacrament. Speaking of the Blessed Sacrament, have you visited any of the six Jubilee 2025 sites in the Diocese of Wilmington yet?...
Scripture readings for Aug. 24, 2025, Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
Is 66:18-21 Ps 117:1, 2 Heb 12:5-7, 11-13 Lk 13:22-30
The promise, you see, always included you. Me too.
The promise of God is what I'm talking about, a promise innumerably...
The beatification cause for Sister Annella Zervas, a Benedictine sister from Minnesota, will formally begin this fall, Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of Crookston, Minnesota, announced Aug. 20.
Bishop Cozzens said a Mass opening the cause's diocesan phase will be held...
WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court temporarily blocked Aug. 18 a federal land transfer to a copper mining giant that would lead to the destruction of a site considered sacred by Indigenous peoples. But President Donald Trump said Aug....
CZESTOCHOWA, Poland -- When you are born in a major pilgrimage destination, you grow up with a treasure -- a national shrine and sacred image -- within reach every day. I was that child, born in Czestochowa, home of...
The president of the U.S. bishops' conference called for a special collection to bolster the Catholic Church's response to a deepening humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip as the Israel-Hamas war continues to grind on.
In a letter to his...
ATLANTA -- From a message that "dread is not of God" to a "pilgrimage of hope," several hundred Catholic sisters and guests gathered in downtown Atlanta for the annual assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
During days of...
MILLTOWN — Micah Sumner has accomplished quite a bit in his personal and professional lives. He has dedicated his life to Catholic education, currently serving as assistant superintendent of schools in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. And he is the...
As the Trump administration seeks to end Russia's multiyear war on Ukraine, Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians continue, said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
Archbishop Gudziak traveled to Ukraine two days after the...