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The Delaware House of Representatives late March 18 narrowly passed HB140, again sending the physician-assisted suicide bill to the state senate. After debate, discussion and testimony, house members voted 21-17 to approve the measure with three members absent. All of...
Happy Saint Joseph's Day! Sometimes no matter how hard we try, it's hard to emulate the saints. Many of us are not in the position to start a religious order, like St. Katherine Drexel, nor do we have mystical...
VATICAN CITY -- Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla confirmed their plans to meet at the Vatican with Pope Francis in early April in an announcement March 18. The British Embassy to the Holy See released Buckingham Palace's itinerary...
A midwife has been arrested and charged after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleged she performed abortions illegal under that state's law, marking the first criminal charges brought under its near-total abortion ban. Paxton's office said March 17 that Maria...
A former priest and a former teacher of the Diocese of Wilmington have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse occurring between 1994 and 1996. John Taggart, 80, and Christopher Crisona, 57, are charged with several...
An 80-year-old former priest of the Diocese of Wilmington and a 57-year-old ex-teacher in local Catholic schools have been charged with sexual abuse of a minor in the mid-1990s, the Delaware attorney general announced in a news release March...
Lent is not just a time for sacrifice, it is also a time of rebirth. On today's Lenten Journey, words from Ezekiel challenge us to throw away our old sinful ways and make "a new heart and a new...
WILMINGTON — For more than three decades, members of Delaware’s Irish community and others have come together for a good time on St. Patrick’s Day, and also to support a good cause. See photo gallery below This year was no different,...
By John Knebels, OSV News Celebrating yet another high school victory in the fall of 2017, Jeremiah Trotter Jr. described how he and his football teammates had dismantled their latest opponent. Unprompted, Trotter eschewed gridiron chatter and delved into what made...
WASHINGTON  -- Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Dennis J. Sullivan of Camden, New Jersey, 80, and Coadjutor Bishop Joseph A. Williams immediately succeeds him as the ninth bishop of the diocese. The announcement was publicized March 17...