GREENVILLE — In their first two games this season, the Archmere boys basketball team posted a one-point victory, then an overtime loss. So it was no surprise that the Auks’ matchup at Tatnall on Jan. 8 came down to...
Father Thomas E. Hanley, a longtime pastor in the Diocese of Wilmington, died Jan. 6. He was 83.
A Wilmington native, Father Hanley attended Christ Our King and Salesianum schools before beginning studies for the priesthood at St. Mary’s College...
The book, "We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families," is at once both stunning and horrifying.
Searching for something to read, I picked up this 1998 bestseller at my daughter's house. But I...
Walter Ciszek was a tough kid growing up in the rugged coal country of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. In the mysterious ways of God, he entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1928 and, as a novice, offered to go to the Russian...
CLEVELAND -- The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace welcomed a pledge by five nuclear powers to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and new arms races.
Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, Illinois, said...
If one is a Christian, it is easy to read the Eight Beatitudes at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount as one of those familiar passages that one has heard dozens if not hundreds of times.
But imagine...
OWENSBORO, Ky. -- Celebrating Mass in a 20-by-25-foot metal outbuilding on Dec. 24, 2021, for the displaced community of Resurrection Parish in Dawson Springs, the image that came to mind for Owensboro Bishop William F. Medley was "there was...
BEAR — Archmere’s boys basketball team fought back from a five-point deficit in the closing minutes of its game Jan. 6 at Caravel, sending the game into overtime. But the Buccaneers scored early in the extra session on a...
WASHINGTON — The 49th annual national March for Life — with a rally on the National Mall and march to the Supreme Court Jan. 21 — will go on as scheduled this year amid a surge in the omicron...
BALTIMORE — A lifelong Catholic who attended parochial schools in St. Paul, Minn., former professional football player Matt Birk had always considered himself pro-life, especially after cradling his first newborn baby.
That’s when the former center with the Minnesota Vikings...