The Alabama Supreme Court's recent in vitro fertilization ruling is placing a new spotlight on personhood legislation, or legislation that recognizes the unborn child as having the legal rights and protections of a person, experts acknowledge.
"Some states have passed...
Nine religious serving in the Diocese of Wilmington are celebrating milestone jubilees this year. Bishop Koenig will be the main celebrant of a Mass of celebration April 17 at Church of the Holy Child in Wilmington.
70 YEARS
Sister Gerard Falkowska,...
NEWARK — Human trafficking — the use of force, fraud or coercion to induce someone into labor or sexual exploitation — is on the rise, but there are ways to combat it. That was the message from an official...
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DETROIT -- Whether it was speaking out against injustice, ministering to those on society's margins or accompanying communities afflicted by geo-political catastrophes, retired Detroit Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton traveled great lengths to express...
A Catholic university in northern New Jersey has named a new president after its previous head abruptly left and sued the school.
Seton Hall University announced April 2 that Msgr. Joseph R. Reilly has been appointed as its 22nd president.
Msgr....
In a video Maynor Suazo Sandoval shared with his family this past winter, the immigrant from Honduras highlighted the snow that was falling outside where he was doing construction work in Baltimore. He wanted his nephews and nieces to...
SÃO PAULO -- A Vatican investigation of the Peruvian Catholic organization Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, launched in 2023 after more than two decades of spiritual and sexual abuse allegations, has resulted in the resignation of one of its most important...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- An astronomy buff since childhood, Father Robert Schrader anticipates quite a birthday present when he turns 75 April 8.
It's a gift in which hundreds of thousands of people will share: the first total solar eclipse in...
ROME -- Pope Francis expressed his condolences to the people of Taiwan after a powerful earthquake struck the island nation's eastern shore.
In a message sent to the Chinese Regional Bishops' Conference of Taiwan, April 4, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican...
Back in the mid- to late 1990s, Ed Dolphin was a student at St. Edmond’s Academy in north Wilmington. He went on to Archmere Academy, Drexel University and a career in information technology, but something about that time at...