NEWARK — The St. Elizabeth football team took an early lead, but turnovers and a strong running game for Laurel proved decisive in a 28-14 Bulldogs victory in the DIAA Class 1A football state championship on Dec. 11 at...
NEWARK – Archmere fell into a 10-0 halftime hole in the DIAA Class 2A football semifinal last week against Delaware Military Academy. The Auks made sure that did not happen in the final against Woodbridge on Dec. 11 at...
WASHINGTON -- The observance of U.N. Human Rights Day Dec. 10 brought to the fore past statements from two Catholic groups, pointing out that needs identified in the past have yet to be addressed.
The Sisters of St. Joseph of...
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said Dec. 10 that clinics can continue to challenge a Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy but in the meantime the law would remain in effect.
Eight justices said the...
A brain-screening program introduced in three schools in the Diocese of Wilmington last spring has been expanded to include nine schools and will eventually be available to students at every school in the diocese.
Baseline testing by the Mid-Atlantic Concussion...
WILMINGTON — The Salesianum student section sat stone-faced when Justin Molen opened the Sals’ basketball season with a three-point swish. They watched impassively as Isaiah Hynson added a pair of free throws.
But when Hynson drained a pull-up jumper a...
When I reflect on Mary, mother of God, often my admiration and gratitude for her life of fidelity, faith and wisdom cannot be expressed in ordinary words.
Instead, I turn to the deep tradition of poetry and music that has...
Something about Advent, and the Christmas season that succeeds it (or, in the secular sphere, envelops it), draws the eye to beauty.
We gently unwrap delicate decorations and place them prominently in our homes and parish sanctuaries; out comes sparkling...
WASHINGTON — Days ahead of a major Marian feast day in the Catholic Church, a marble statue of Our Lady of Fatima near the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington was vandalized, with Mary’s...
WASHINGTON — A poll released Dec. 9 showed a strong majority of Americans don’t see the reasons for a religious exemption to the coronavirus vaccine as valid.
“Few Americans say that the COVID-19 vaccine goes against their personal religious beliefs...