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The Synod on Synodality's first session at the Vatican has concluded, with its results wrapped up in a 41-page "half-time report" for the entire church to digest, reflect on and give feedback about ahead of the synod's final session...
It is a perfect fall day, the sun warm above us. A gentle breeze occasionally sends piles of fallen brown leaves scurrying across the street like a disciplined army of mice suddenly commanded into battle. My almost 3-year-old granddaughter Alice...
Ursuline Academy kicked off the 2023-24 high school musical season with its production of Amelie (teen edition) at the school in Wilmington the last weekend of October. The remainder of Catholic school musicals for the high schools in the Diocese...
With the focus of the three-year National Eucharistic Revival having turned to parishes, Bishop Koenig is asking those in the Diocese of Wilmington to make eucharistic adoration available for a week beginning Nov. 26. All priests and deacons have been...
WASHINGTON -- A rule proposed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, "Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace," would govern the implementation of federal law on harassment and associated nondiscrimination policies. However, the U.S. Catholic bishops and other religious...
More than 25 St. Mary Magdalen School families gathered on Oct. 9 for the second annual Bulldogs Care Day of Service. The day began with praying St. Francis's Canticle of the Creatures and was started as a way to...
Saint Mark’s continued the busy final week of its regular season with a 7-0 victory at McKean on Oct. 31. The Spartans scored in the first minute and had six goals at the half. The first half included a top-shelf...
WASHINGTON -- Catholic Charities USA, the organization dedicated to carrying out the domestic humanitarian work of the Catholic Church in the United States, responded Oct. 31 to "disturbing" recent remarks by a social media influencer threatening its staff. The right-wing...
"Clericalism is a whip, it is a scourge, it is a form of worldliness that defiles and damages the face of the Lord's bride; it enslaves God's holy and faithful people," Pope Francis told some 400 voting members and...
Saint Mark’s has earned the No. 4 seed in the 2023 DIAA Division II field hockey tournament, which begins Nov. 1 with four first-round games. The Spartans received a bye and will play on Nov. 4. They are one...