LIVERPOOL, England -- Human rights defender Bianca Jagger has accused the Nicaraguan dictatorship of creating a spiritual vacuum in the country by its purge of Catholic clergy.
Jagger said the Jan. 14 expulsion of two bishops, 15 priests and two...
Bishop-designate Efren Esmilla, soon-to-be auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, celebrated the monthly bilingual Mass at St. Elizabeth Church in Wilmington Jan. 21.
The annual feast honoring Santo Niño called “Sinulog” is celebrated on the third Sunday in January...
MILLTOWN — Saint Mark’s lost the opening tip to Christiana when their boys basketball teams met on Jan. 22, but the Spartans immediately stole the ball and turned that into a layup for Chase Wright. Saint Mark’s was off...
ASTON, Pa. — Sister Anna Mae Coll, formerly Sister James Bernard, died in Assisi House on Jan. 20. She was 98 and had been a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 77 years.
A Baltimore...
The Christopher Council of the Delaware Knights of Columbus, which serves Holy Rosary Parish in Claymont and St. Helena Parish in Bellefonte, celebrated its 75th anniversary on Jan. 20 with a Mass at Holy Rosary, followed by a banquet...
VATICAN CITY -- A journalist's reporting about the Catholic Church should not aim to polarize people or push certain positions, but to seek and share the truth, Pope Francis said.
Journalists have an obligation to ground their work "on the...
Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, passed away unexpectedly late Jan 19 due to complications from recent health problems, according to a post from the diocese. He was 63.
Bishop Dorsonville had headed the diocese as its fifth bishop...
Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., ended his bid for president Jan. 21 and endorsed his rival, former President Donald Trump, just two days before New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary.
DeSantis, a Catholic, who handily won his reelection as governor, was once seen...
WILMINGTON — “Make it a day on, not a day off.”
That was the message at Ursuline Academy in Wilmington on Jan. 15, the federal holiday for the birthday of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights...
MEXICO CITY -- Six nuns from the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Anne were kidnapped Jan. 19 while traveling on a bus in the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, according to the Haitian Conference of Religious.
Other passengers on the bus...