The hymns we hear during Advent are one of the season's greatest consolations.
And is there any musical composition quite as evocative as the beautiful blend of "What Child Is This?" and the more recently written, "Child of the Poor"?
The...
These last few days of Advent draw us further into preparations, celebrations and "must do" activities. We might be feeling mighty frazzled, perhaps pulled in myriad directions, afraid we won't get it all done.
Blessedly, the readings for the fourth...
NEWARK – The St. Elizabeth football team fought for every yard in its DIAA Class 1A championship game against Laurel on Dec. 10. The Vikings fell behind, 14-0, and clawed back to within a point with just under eight...
MILLTOWN – Laurel's Carlie Venables hit a three-point shot to open the second quarter of the Bulldogs' girls basketball game at Saint Mark's on Dec. 9, but the Spartans responded by putting up the next 14 points on their...
Father Joseph W. McQuaide led the reflection Dec. 9 for Diocese of Wilmington employees at the annual Advent Day of Reflection at Church of the Holy Child in Wilmington.
Father McQuaide, judicial vicar and chancellor of the diocese, spoke on...
WILMINGTON — For three and a half minutes on the evening of Dec. 8, the packed student section at Salesianum did not make a sound while their basketball team played St. Andrew’s in Birkenheuer Gymnasium. But when Brandon Baffone’s...
PENNY HILL — Ursuline basketball got a glimpse of the future — and the present on Dec. 8 when the Raiders opened their season at Mount Pleasant. Eighth-graders Taylor Brown and Gigi Banks both reached double figures as the...
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Mass on the feast of the Immaculate Conception at Cathedral of St. Peter drew about 100 people Dec. 8, including some students from the adjacent Cathedral of St. Peter School in the Diocese of Wilmington.
Father Christopher Markellos, associate pastor,...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis asked Catholics around the world to join him in entrusting to Mary "the universal desire for peace, especially for the martyred Ukraine, which is suffering so much."
Reciting the Angelus prayer at midday Dec. 8,...
Sunday Scripture readings, Dec. 11, 2022: Third Sunday of Advent
1) Is 35:1-6a, 10 Psalm 146:6-10
2) Jas 5:7-10 Gospel: Mt 11:2-11
Advent calls us to recognize signs and wonders
When St. John Paul II was elected to the papacy in 1978, he...