Two federal civil lawsuits, each seeking $75 million, accuse the Missouri dioceses of Springfield-Cape Girardeau and Jefferson City of covering up clergy sexual abuse in the 1980s and 1990s and also of enabling the priests who allegedly committed the...
TRENTON, N.J. -- Before the standing-room-only congregation gathered in Trenton's St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral for the first statewide Mass for Life, Bishop David M. O'Connell framed his homily around the words "Duty to Protect" when it comes...
WILMINGTON — Salesianum’s offense went on the attack early and did not let up, and it resulted in a 3-1 boys soccer win over previously undefeated Caesar Rodney on Oct. 15 at Abessinio Stadium. It was just the second...
“One of Us” is a brief snapshot of people who support the Catholic church in various ways in the Diocese of Wilmington. We regularly feature people who may be recognizable within their parish or school communities.
NAME: Jimmy Szpak
School: Salesianum School
Year: Senior
Parish: St....
The naming of a Japanese atomic bomb survivors group as this year's Nobel Peace Prize recipient is "fitting ... during this time of heightened geopolitical tension," said Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, who has traveled...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis announced he would create 21 new cardinals Dec. 8, including a 99-year-old former nuncio and the 44-year-old Ukrainian bishop who heads his church's eparchy in Melbourne, Australia.
The 21 cardinals-designate named by the pope Oct....
Each year, churches around the world commemorate World Mission Sunday to highlight, encourage and promote the Catholic Church's missions around the world.
The day, which was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1926, is observed on the penultimate Sunday of...
Sister Maria Dolores Mairlot, a native of Asturias, Spain, and a member of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity, died Sept. 26. She was 91 and had been a member of her community since 1953.
Sister Maria was a talented musician...
Stephen White, executive director of the Catholic Project at Catholic University, will speak on “What the Republic Needs of Us: Catholic Citizenship in an Era of Dissolution” at the fall lecture of the St. Thomas More Society of the...
Fostering vocations is not the job of only the vocations office in the Diocese of Wilmington, or of the priests in the churches. It is something all Catholics should be doing, according to the diocese, and will learn more...