By Brian Fraga, OSV News
Our Lady's hands are said to have once repelled pirates from the small, secluded island of Corvo in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Every year, on the Aug. 15 feast of the Assumption, the people...
By Marge Fenelon, OSV News
If asked to list Marian feast days in August, most Catholics would respond with only "the Assumption."
If asked what other Marian feast days are in August, most Catholics would go blank. That is probably because...
A retired FBI agent will head up the U.S. bishops' consultative safe environment body, while a clergy abuse survivor, a nursing professor and two clinical social workers are also among the board's Aug. 1 appointments.
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of...
VATICAN CITY -- While bishops around the world are asked to designate their cathedrals or other significant churches as special places of pilgrimage and prayer for the Holy Year 2025, the Vatican is not asking them to dedicate and...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis visited an amusement park an hour outside of Rome to greet workers, their families and the two nuns providing pastoral care there.
Sister Geneviève Jeanningros, 81, and Sister Anna Amelia, who are members of the...
Worthwhile. Reasonable. Achievable.
Those are the words used by Bishop Koenig to describe the path put forward by mostly lay leadership teams in the seven regions, or deaneries, in the Diocese of Wilmington.
Bishop Koenig last year introduced “United in Christ”...
Welcome to the first week of August in this beautiful summer. Check out some of these great activities in and around the Diocese of Wilmington:
If you’re vacationing in one of the beautiful resort areas of the diocese, don’t...
An anti-trafficking group founded by U.S. Catholic religious sisters is calling on leaders of Big Tech firms to counter human rights abuses that allow human trafficking to fester.
The Alliance to End Human Trafficking issued an open letter July 30...
The City of Wilmington Deanery welcomes people and families to join the celebration on Tuesday, Aug. 13, at St. Elizabeth Church to recognize the annual feast day of Blessed Father Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus.
The Angelus...
Scripture Readings for Aug. 4, 2024, Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Ex 16:2-4, 12-15 Ps 78:3-4, 23-24, 25, 54 Eph 4:17, 20-24 Jn 6:24-35
The 'bread of life' is a love that almost defies human understanding
When you think about it, we...