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WILMINGTON — Parents filled the lawn and driveway outside St. Mary Magdalen School in north Wilmington on Aug. 26 as their students exited the building after the first day of school for 2024-25. It was a scene that took...
Salesianum School begins its defense of the DIAA Class 3A football championship on Aug. 29 at home against Episcopal Academy (Pa.) as part of the Mid-Atlantic Pigskin Classic at Abessinio Stadium. Kickoff is at 7:45 p.m., and tickets are...
VATICAN CITY -- "Please, let no Christian church be abolished directly or indirectly: the churches are not to be touched," Pope Francis said about a Ukrainian law banning the Russian Orthodox Church, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed Aug. 24,...
In an unusual case, two priests in Steubenville, Ohio, are fighting for legal custody of a toddler who is presently under their care. Father Bradley Greer, chancellor of the Diocese of Steubenville, Ohio, and Father Timothy Huffman, parochial vicar at...
Registration continues for fall sports for Catholic Youth Ministry. CYM sponsors six fall sports for students in grades two through high school. Aaron Frye, the athletic coordinator for CYM, said registration is available at the organization’s website, www.cdowcym.org. Parents or...
A group of students from the National Art Honor Society at Archmere Academy helped with a makeover at north Wilmington’s Mary Campbell Center this summer. A resident-created mural was installed in the Charmie Welch Hallway at the center, which...
A New Jersey diocese and several priests are suing the federal government over a rule change in religious worker visas, in a case that highlights the perfect storm created by the nation's shifting immigration policies and the Catholic Church...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Bishop James V. Johnston of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Missouri, released results of the investigation by medical experts into Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster's incorruptibility in a press release on the diocesan website Aug. 22,...
CHICAGO -- After the federal government declared a health emergency in 2020 over the COVID-19 pandemic, Catholic churches in the U.S. scrambled to figure out how to provide the Eucharist, the sacrament that is the "source and summit of...
LONDON -- A Catholic pro-life volunteer, twice arrested for praying silently outside an abortion clinic, has received a payout from the U.K. police force who arrested her. Speaking on Aug. 19, the day the 13,000 pound ($16,900) payout was announced,...