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By Jenna Festoff St. Thomas More Oratory I had the great privilege to attend the SEEK 2024 conference in St. Louis run by FOCUS in early January. A year ago, my relationship with God was very far from where it is now....
VATICAN CITY-- The Catholic Church should revise its celibacy requirement for Latin-rite priests, a senior official in the Vatican's doctrinal office said. "If it were up to me, I would revise the requirement that priest(s) have to be celibate," said...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis called on the international community to ban surrogate pregnancy, calling it "deplorable" and a "grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child, based on the exploitation of situations of the mother's...
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A multiyear investigation overseen by the Catholic Church into Archbishop John C. Nienstedt, who resigned from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in 2015, has ended with the Vatican finding that he acted "imprudently"...
St. Ann School in Wilmington started off the new year with a Vocations Day for grades 5-8. The students attended a 9 a.m. Mass and after Mass heard about the universal call to holiness as reflected in the lives of...
By Father Michael Carrier Church of the Holy Child Bishop Koenig’s “United in Christ – A Pastoral Letter Introducing Our Pastoral Planning” has invited local deaneries and parishes to enter into conversation as to how we are truly “United in Christ.” Within...
An Alabama Catholic priest has now been fully returned to the lay state months after he fled the country with a recent Catholic high school graduate whose parents expressed concern she had been groomed by the cleric while she...
TRENTON, N.J. -- Bishop David M. O'Connell of Trenton was moved from intensive care to the Cardiac Care Unit of Santo Spirito Hospital in Rome Jan. 7, where he continues his recovery from surgery after suffering a heart attack...
More high-profile action is on tap this week for the various teams, and it’s not limited to the basketball court. There is something to see for fans of all the winter high school sports. In wrestling, several teams take a...
WILMINGTON —Salesianum and St. Elizabeth had the spotlight to themselves on the afternoon of Jan. 7, a rare Sunday high school boys basketball battle. The teams, ranked first and second, respectively, by Delaware Live, met for a matinee at...