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When a fish fry happens at lunchtime in the city, you know the Dashing Dialog Diner must take advantage of such brilliance. So it was that a visit to St. Joseph’s on French Street was in order for the latest...
The Knights of Columbus are inviting their pro-life friends to join them at 40 Days for Life on March 14 in Wilmington. The biannual prayer vigil will be held outside Planned Parenthood at 625 Shipley St. from 8-11 a.m.,...
Q: Is it acceptable in the eyes of God to have an alcoholic drink at a bar that was once an altar? My diocese has deconsecrated said altar. A: I of course can't speak directly for God, but I know...
By Father James Dominic Brent, OP , OSV News Sixth in a seven-part series According to the Gospel of John, in his final moment on the cross, Jesus declared: "It is finished" (Jn 19:30). The words might also be translated: "It...
WASHINGTON -- A Senate subcommittee hearing held March 10 on President Donald Trump's executive order to restrict access to birthright citizenship guaranteed in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution examined arguments about what the amendment's language regarding "subject...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Leo XIV has named Father Godfrey Mullen, a Benedictine monk, as the new bishop of Belleville, Illinois. The Vatican announced the appointment of Bishop-designate Mullen March 13. The see of the Diocese of Belleville has been...
After 13 years of daring acts of charity that made him break the law in the name of the Gospel and elevate Rome's homeless to the heart of the Church, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the pope's "Robin Hood" leaves Rome...
Since the start of the U.S. and Israel's war on Iran, some U.S. Catholic bishops have highlighted Church teaching on what constitutes a "just war" -- with one cardinal flatly declaring the current conflict fails to meet the necessary...
Your grandparents most likely will tell you that there has yet to be a TV preacher as inspiring as the late Bishop Sheen. The Emmy-winning prelate hosted many TV specials and videos of his down-to-earth spiritual messages are available...
Sister Mary Beth Read, a member of the Ursuline Sisters who graduated from Ursuline Academh in Wilmington, died March 9 at Andrus on Hudson Nursing Home in Hastings-On-Hudson, N.Y. She was 80 and had been a member of the...