For most of us, entering our parish church is like walking into our home. We know where everything is located, the pictures on the wall, the furniture, our favorite seat. Even when we go to another church, the surroundings...
It was a clunky start to Catholic Schools Week, through no fault of energized students and staff at schools throughout the Diocese of Wilmington.
You can thank the snow and ever-present ice floes that followed.
Through most of the diocese, it...
Pope Leo XIV recently published his first Message for World Communications Day, which will be celebrated this year on May 17. Entitled “Preserving Human Voices and Faces,” the five-page document elaborates upon a fundamental concern of this papacy and...
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A key national pro-life group has accused the U.S. Department of Justice of undermining Louisiana's efforts to roll back the Biden administration's eased restrictions on mifepristone when it asked a court to pause the Pelican...
By Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki, OSV News
If you asked, "What does Christianity have to say about the Olympics?", most people would probably shrug and say, "Not much," not seeing any real connection between a seemingly secular athletic tournament and...
As fears of a return to full-scale war in South Sudan escalate, Catholic bishops in the country have reiterated their call for peace and dialogue, amid fighting and mobilization in parts of the country.
Cardinal Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla of...
ROME -- Asked about the deadly shootings by U.S. federal agents in Minneapolis, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, said the violence unfolding there is "unacceptable."
"The position of the Holy See is always to avoid any kind of...
It’s not spring yet, and it certainly doesn’t feel like it outside, but high school musicals for the spring semester begin next month in the Diocese of Wilmington.
As usual, Padua Academy kicks off the fun this season with the...
Scripture readings for Feb. 1, 2026, Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Zep 2:3; 3:12-13 Ps 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10 1 Cor 1:26-31 Mt 5:1-12a
This Sunday we find ourselves hearing the most famous sermon in all history: The Sermon on the Mount.
Over...
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne bid his farewell to the German Synodal Way and said he won't participate in the upcoming sixth assembly, starting Jan. 29.
"For me, the Synodal Way is over," he said in an interview with...