Nearly 200 people gathered Feb. 15 at St. Ann parish in Wilmington for a "Circle of Honor" event recognizing contributors to the annual Faith and Charity Catholic Appeal in the Diocese of Wilmington.
Bishop Koenig led a prayer service with...
VATICAN CITY -- Like a giant Tinkertoy construction, a skeletal tower of scaffolding slowly inched its way up the twisting bronze columns of the baldachin over the main altar of St. Peter's Basilica.
Workers on the ground picked through piles...
BROOME, Australia -- The Australian bishops' conference president, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe of Perth, has said the investigation into allegations against retired Bishop Christopher Saunders of Broome is "right and proper, and indeed necessary" after he was arrested by Western...
An Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos qualify as children under state law has raised complex legal questions about artificial reproductive practices opposed by the Catholic Church.
The Feb. 16 ruling responded to appeals brought by couples whose embryos...
Sunday Scripture readings for Feb. 25, 2024, Second Sunday of Lent
Gn 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18 Ps 116:10, 15, 16-17, 18-19 Rom 8:31b-34 Mk 9:2-10
When we have faith in Jesus we are given a new way of seeing the world
Lent...
To help the faithful observe Lent in the Diocese of Wilmington, this year’s annual Our Lenten Journey offers our readers an opportunity to meditate on one thought from the Gospel for the day.
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Longtime Diocese of Wilmington official Thomas Jewett died on Feb. 17. He was 82.
He was born in Canton, Ohio on May 5, 1941 to Muriel (Witmer) and Basil Jewett. He was the third of five children, two of whom...
By Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak
Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia
In America, Tucker Carlson, unceremoniously fired last year from his bully pulpit at Fox News, is known for his biting sarcasm and derisive cynicism.
Yet, in Russia, he recently met, in the...
The Doomsday Clock -- the theoretical timepiece that measures humanity's march toward nuclear annihilation when it strikes midnight -- continues to dismally tick forward, currently marking 90 seconds until Armageddon.
And for yet another year, the nine major nuclear powers...
VATICAN CITY -- Five years after Pope Francis' summit on fighting clerical sexual abuse, a Rome lawyer had advice for religious women sexually abused by priests: Go to the police.
Laura Sgrò, a civil and canon lawyer known for arguing...