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DUBLIN -- Once a Catholic giant, Ireland is becoming less religious, census data shows. Just over half of the residents of the Irish capital, Dublin, now self-identify as Catholic, according to data released May 30 by the country's Central...
Sunday Scripture reflections, June 4, 2023, Trinity Sunday Ex 34:4b-6, 8-9  Dn 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56  2 Cor 13:11-13  Jn 3:16-18 How do we respond to our divine invitation to community? Our computers and phones are meant to connect us to...
VATICAN CITY -- As first Communion season winds down and wedding fever rises, Catholic counters are busy. The Central Office of Church Statistics, a department of the Vatican Secretariat of State, keeps track of baptisms, first Communions, confirmations and Catholic...
MILLTOWN — For Saint Mark’s to get back to the DIAA Division II girls soccer championship game for the third consecutive season, the Spartans would have to get through an opponent who defeated them during the regular season. They...
UVALDE, Texas -- One year after the Uvalde mass school shooting, which left 19 students and two teachers dead, officials with Chicago-based Catholic Extension visited the Texas city to renew the organization's solidarity with a community still in the...
WASHINGTON -- Speakers at commencement exercises at U.S. Catholic colleges and universities this year ranged from musician and composer Harry Connick Jr. and actor of stage and screen Mahershala Ali to cardinals and bishops and a former college president. As...
“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 communities. NAME: Charlie Palladino HOMETOWN: Millsboro  PARISH: Mary Mother of Peace “What...
A confrontation May 26 outside the doors of a downtown Baltimore Planned Parenthood center left witnesses at a neighboring pro-life pregnancy center disturbed by the level of violence and praying for the recovery of the injured, both of whom...
By Delaware Catholic Advocacy Network The bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide was passed out of committee and is on the “ready list” to be considered by the Delaware House of Representatives. Delaware Catholic Advocacy Network opposition is rooted in the church's...
MILLTOWN — Val Karch, a 1995 Saint Mark’s High School graduate and a longtime girls basketball coach with the Spartans, has been named the head coach of the girls’ program at her alma mater. Karch has been coaching basketball for...