WILMINGTON — Archmere’s girls basketball team encountered a veteran Central Dauphin (Pa.) on Dec. 28, and the Auks could not match the Rams’ firepower on the first day of the inaugural Viking Invitational at the St. E Center. The...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- The normal crowds of pilgrims and tourists may not have been able to come to Bethlehem for Christmas due to COVID-19 travel restrictions for a second year in a row, but local Palestinian Christians wanted...
VATICAN CITY -- Preparations for the Holy Year 2025 have already begun, and Pope Francis has asked the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization to take charge of the efforts.
In a brief note Dec. 26, the Vatican press office...
WILMINGTON — The search for a school for her four children led to an unexpected career shift for Michelle Higgins. The Wilmington resident traded a law library for a classroom full of 8-year-olds, and she hasn’t looked back.
Higgins had...
My husband and I are in the process of moving to the East Coast to be near our daughters and grandchildren.
I say "process" because it's harder to buy a house here than it was in Anchorage, Alaska, or Omaha,...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu's compassion and sense of humor, as well as his commitment to justice and processes of peace, were among the many reasons he was an icon, said Bishop Kevin Dowling of...
New Year's celebrations can be a mixed experience.
On one hand, the holidays have brought us opportunities to be renewed in our relationships with family and friends. On the other hand, secular media can present this sort of "new year,...
Family life gets a little messy at times. Did I say "a little"? Often families need only wait an hour or two for the next mind-boggling challenge to greet them!
I suspect that many families are reluctant to call themselves...
I recently heard a funny little story of a mother who complained one day to her own mother, that it was getting harder and harder to get her teen-aged sons and daughters to write a thank you note for...
Bishop Koenig’s Christmas Mass schedule began at two churches Dec. 24 and continued with two more on Christmas Day.
It was the bishop’s first Christmas as shepherd of the more than 240,000 Catholics who live in Delaware and on Maryland’s...