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By Delaware Catholic Advocacy Network ACTION ALERT!  HB 140, the bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide, could come before the Delaware House this week! This is the last week of session for this year and we need your help!  Our opposition is...
WASHINGTON -- In a statement to mark the first anniversary of the Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling, President Joe Biden said June 24 that his administration "will continue to protect access to reproductive health care and call on Congress to...
The following priests in the Diocese of Wilmington are celebrating ordination milestones this year. Bishop Koenig marked the occasion in a Mass celebrated June 22 at the Cathedral of St. Peter. 60 years Father William Hazzard graduated from St. Mary’s Seminary...
VATICAN CITY -- Forty years since the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a Vatican schoolgirl who mysteriously vanished at the age of 15, Pope Francis publicly expressed his closeness to her family. "In these days, the 40th anniversary of the disappearance...
VATICAN CITY -- The mostly "silent and hidden" work of the Servants of the Paraclete, a religious order that ministers to priests and religious banned from ministry because of abuse allegations or who are experiencing other difficulties, must focus...
Q: I read that Father Marko Rupnik was expelled from the Jesuit order but remains a priest. How does that work? (Flushing, New York) A: First for some background, priesthood and religious life are actually two distinct vocations, even if...
Dr. Schleich, a history professor at the Jesuit university where I was a student decades ago, was launching our world history survey class. It was a required course, so I sat amid a huge classroom full of intimidated freshmen as...
By John Touhey, OSV Your young ones may be taking a break from school, but with this kids' book list, the summer months can be a time for fun and wholesome reading adventures. Take some time to help your kids...
By Mike Mastromatteo, OSV "The Lost Pope," by Glenn Cooper Grand Central Publishing (New York, 2023) 384 pages, $18.99 Imagine if an ancient, long-hidden foundational document clarifying eligibility for church leadership comes to light in contemporary times. When interpreted and set in proper...
Ursuline Sister Jeanne Hamilton, who ministered in the Diocese of Wilmington and was a former columnist for The Dialog, died June 19 at Andrus on Hudson in Hastings on Hudson, N.Y. She was 88 and had been a professed...