VATICAN CITY -- With the Holy Year 2025 beginning on Christmas Eve, the Vatican's 2024 Christmas stamps feature the Jubilee message of hope as well as a prayer for peace.
Both Christmas stamps, set to go on sale Nov. 4,...
WINDSOR MILL, Md. -- From the rural road in Windsor Mill, a small sign and a gravel driveway mark the entrance to Serenity Ridge Natural Burial Cemetery and Arboretum. It doesn't look much like a cemetery from the roadway,...
By Father Norman Carroll
Nov. 3-9 is National Vocation Awareness Week. Each year the USCCB dedicates the first week in November for a focus of the church’s need for vocations and the responsibility that we have to encourage the stirrings...
Don't miss the pilgrimage of a lifetime with the Diocese of Wilmington and Bishop William Koenig Oct. 25-Nov. 11, 2025.
The pilgrimage to Italy marks the special occasion of the year of the jubilee.
Throughout 2025, the Catholic church celebrates a...
Q: I recently took a six-week theology class, and the priest teaching it was pretty emphatic that most don't make it to heaven. First, we must be without mortal sin. So all those who forsake Mass or the Holy...
Pope Francis' new encyclical on the Sacred Heart of Jesus is being hailed as "a simple and powerful cure" for a fractured world, said the president of the U.S. Catholic bishops' conference -- and that sentiment was echoed by...
By Leonard J. DeLorenzo, OSV News
When the beloved disciple reclined his head upon the breast of the Savior (cf. Jn 13:25), he heard the beats of divine charity and felt the heat of God's love. Among the Twelve Apostles,...
CLAYMONT – Archmere got stronger as the night went on, and the Auks' volleyball team ended up with a 3-0 sweep of Conrad in the first round of the DIAA state tournament on Oct. 31 at Moglia Fildhouse. The...
Seton Center, a social services facility operated by Catholic Charities, has a full slate of activities scheduled for November.
Nov. 1 is the last day of signups for Christmas events. Other events happening at the center, located at 30632 Hampden...
MILLTOWN – Saint Mark's field hockey team absorbed punch after punch from Tatnall when the teams met Oct. 30 in a first-round DIAA Division II tournament game, but in the end, the Spartans needed just one opportunity to deliver...