Q: My cousin told me I could get an annulment for $1,000. Is that still true? (Washington, D.C.)
A: It’s important to keep in mind that Catholic marriage tribunals exist to conduct an impartial investigation as to whether a marriage...
For almost two years, the church has been actively engaged in a process of listening and discernment. Maybe you participated in synod conversations at your parish, maybe you didn’t. Maybe you chatted about topics with friends or colleagues, maybe...
With the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops soon to get underway, there's a certain question that needs to be faced: Isn't a Synod on Synodality -- which is what this one is supposed to be...
CLAYMONT — After a bit of a slow start in their game at Archmere on Sept. 14, the Saint Mark’s field hockey team swung the momentum in their favor. The Spartans’ relentless pressure paid off with two Cat Kaminski...
As authorities in Libya announced a three-day mourning period following a deadly flood disaster, a Catholic bishop in the North African country expressed the church's closeness to the people, many of whom are injured, missing or trapped by the...
BALTIMORE -- Autumn Marlow, 17, never even boarded a plane before she took her place in the pilot's seat of a four-seat, single-engine Cessna 172 and flew over the Chesapeake Bay.
Marlow is the first student in the Dr. Sandy...
WASHINGTON -- Catholic activists called on Congress to ensure funding for migrant services is protected in upcoming appropriations bills at a Sept. 13 event near the U.S. Capitol.
"We're hoping to call on Congress to invest in our communities," Sister...
Father John J. Kavanaugh, a longtime pastor in the Diocese of Wilmington, died Sept. 13. He was 92 and was the longest-ordained priest in the diocese.
He was ordained in June 1957 at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Wilmington...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has named Spanish-born Archbishop José Rodríguez Carballo, who has held the No. 2 post at the Vatican office that oversees the world's religious orders, to be coadjutor archbishop of Mérida-Badajoz, Spain.
The Vatican announced the...
ROME -- When Pope Francis said he wanted the focus of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith to be "something very different" from the dicastery's reputation as a stringent watchdog, he was not saying anything goes, Cardinal-designate...