“One of Us” is a brief snapshot of people who support the Catholic church in various ways in the Diocese of Wilmington. We will regularly feature people who may be recognizable within their parish communities.
NAME: Kyle Sobieski
HOMETOWN: Wilmington, DE
PARISH: St. Helena's Parish
What...
WILMINGTON — With their leading scorer sidelined, the St. Elizabeth boys basketball team needed other options to present themselves in the Vikings’ home opener against Delcastle on Dec. 14. The primary option was Jermai Herring, who put his team...
WILMINGTON — Rory Ciszkowski and her St. Elizabeth’s girls basketball team may have lost a few players from last season’s state champions, but the Vikings’ cupboard is far from bare. Delcastle found that out on Dec. 14, when St....
CHILDS, Md. — Father Robert G. Reece, a professed member of the Oblate of St. Francis de Sales for 66 years, died Dec. 6. He was 86.
Father Reece was a Philadelphia native who entered the Oblates upon his graduation...
NEWARK — At Archmere Academy, the same last names regularly show up on various athletic rosters, as mothers and fathers, brothers, sisters and cousins follow in each other’s footsteps to the Claymont campus. One of those names has been...
With the fall sports finally a memory, all attention turns to the winter competition. Basketball heats up and features the usual pre-holiday tournaments, with some good in-state games mixed in. The wrestling calendar includes two of the area’s biggest...
LEWES — It’s the Nativity story with a twist.
Children told the Christmas story during the annual “Darkness into Light” pageant at St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church on Dec. 11.
The annual pageant returned this year after a two-year absence....
MAYFIELD, Ky. -- Mourning, prayer and a resolve to rebuild shattered lives, homes and businesses in Mayfield followed one of the most powerful twisters in U.S. history that leveled the city of 10,000 in western Kentucky overnight Dec. 10.
The...
VATICAN CITY -- Festive music, dancing and prayers in honor of Mary echoed through St. Peter's Square as hundreds gathered to commemorate the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The sounds of Mexican mariachi brought much needed warmth on a...
VATICAN CITY -- With Christmas just over a week away, Christians should prepare for Jesus' birth by serving those in need rather than focusing on what awaits them under the Christmas tree, Pope Francis said.
"We are so busy with...