VATICAN CITY -- U.S. Vice President JD Vance will be in Rome April 18 and has meetings planned with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, his office said.
Although the visit...
One popular devotion is the Divine Mercy Chaplet, often said at 3 p.m. in honor of the hour Christ died. Using a rosary, Catholics can pray the chaplet using the following prayers:
• Optional opening prayer: "You expired, Jesus, but...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis personally thanked the health care workers and medical staff who cared for him in Rome's Gemelli hospital for 38 days while he recovered from respiratory infections.
"Thank you, thank you above all for what you...
VATICAN CITY -- The Gospel contains a great message of hope, "because it tells us that wherever we are lost and however we are lost, God always comes looking for us!" said the text for Pope Francis' weekly general...
My younger brother was gay.
He found a haven and a career in New York City, but never spoke of his sexuality to our mother, even though she knew, and they loved each other very much. Before he died, Bill...
Between 1931 and 1938, a young nun named Sister Maria Faustina claimed to have experienced a series of visions, messages and conversations in which our Lord Jesus asked her to establish a devotion to his Divine Mercy.
Helen Kowalska, who...
My dear brothers in the priesthood, beloved deacons, religious and faithful people of God, we gather this evening, in this holiest of weeks, and it, like all the liturgies of this week, is an abundance of blessings.
In addition to...
Right now is a difficult time for nearly every family I know. Parents are stressed. Teens are depressed. Kids are anxious. Studies on mental health back this up with statistics, but start a conversation with friends, family, neighbors or...
The Most Reverend William E. Koenig, D.D., Bishop of Wilmington, announces the following appointments:
Concluding Diocesan Ministry
The Reverend Pedro Higinio Silva Gonzalez, M.X.Y. concluded his service as Associate Pastor of Saint John the Baptist, Newark as well as his ministry to...
WILMINGTON – Riley Schultz and Jacob Kelly went toe-to-toe in a pitchers' duel at Frawley Stadium on April 16, but in the end, Schultz's Archmere Auks scored in the bottom of the seventh for a 2-1 walkoff win over...