“One of Us” is a brief snapshot of people who support the Catholic church in various ways in the Diocese of Wilmington. We regularly feature people who may be recognizable within their parish or school communities.
NAME: Mikie McHale
Hometown: Easton, Md.
High School:...
When the Filipino Catholic community gets together for a feast, expect a celebration that almost aways includes prayer, food and dancing.
So says Filipino priest Efren Esmilla, the newly appointed auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia who for the...
Sunday Scripture readings for Jan. 14, 2024, Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
1 Sm 3:3b-10, 19 Ps 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10 1 Cor 6:13c-15a, 17-20 Jn 1:35-42
A renewed commitment to prayer gives direction to our lives
The new year is...
VATICAN CITY -- The day after being released from Rome's Santo Spirito Hospital, Bishop David M. O'Connell of Trenton, New Jersey, had a heart-to-heart moment with Pope Francis.
Bishop O'Connell, who suffered a heart attack Jan. 4 and underwent an...
WASHINGTON -- Congressional lawmakers Jan. 7 released the framework for a nearly $1.7 trillion agreement to fund the federal government in 2024, keeping funding intact for some domestic and social safety net programs despite demands from some Republicans to...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Nashville Diocese said Jan. 6 that the associate pastor at a Franklin Catholic parish, Father Juan Carlos Garcia, has been removed from his parish post and from public ministry while the Franklin City Police Department...
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Wilmington received a $10,000 grant from Citizens Bank as support for its "Basic Needs Program."
Catholic Charities will assist people of low income to reduce poverty, prevent homelessness and encourage self-sufficiency through financial...
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...