WASHINGTON — Several Catholic hospitals, a Catholic university and Mercy sisters who run health clinics filed a challenge to a federal mandate for performing gender transition procedures with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit Dec. 15.
The...
WASHINGTON -- This past year was busy for the nation's high court, particularly with issues of interest to Catholics regarding abortion, religious liberty, COVID-19 vaccine mandates and the death penalty.
This fall, all eyes were particularly on the court with...
BALTIMORE — St. Mary’s Seminary & University is set to receive a $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through a three-phase initiative “Pathways for Tomorrow.”
The grant was awarded to further support the “design and implementation of St. Mary’s...
A flame of light from the grotto in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity is making its way around the world, including across the United States.
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and other volunteers carry the light and transfer it — sometimes...
WASHINGTON — Thomas J. Quigley, who worked for 45 years in service to the U.S. bishops, mostly in the realm of foreign policy, died Dec. 11 at age 91.
He died in Arlington, Va., at the home of his daughter...
“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...