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...
WYNNEWOOD, Pa. -- From its beginning in 2021, the church's synod on synodality has raised a question: Where is this worldwide process of listening to the people of God, especially those on the margins, going?
Panelists at St. Charles Borromeo...
On this episode of Catholic Forum, after Joe Owens gives us a news update from The Dialog, and a cut from the More Than 50 Most Loved Hymns CD, we talk with scripture scholar, best-selling author, and international speaker, Dr. Mary Healy. She...
The Norbertines -- one of the oldest surviving religious orders in the Catholic Church, established in France in 1120 -- are not only, in the words of their founder St. Norbert of Xanten, "prepared for every good work."
They're also...
WILMINGTON — Hundreds of Salesianum School students mingled in the two parking alcoves behind the school on Sept. 13 for the annual activities fair.
More than 60 different clubs, including at least one from off campus, were represented, sign-up sheets...