WASHINGTON -- When the U.S. bishops meet this fall for their annual assembly, they will revisit the discussion they began in mid-June about the Eucharist and will be presented with a drafted document on the "meaning of the Eucharist...
WILMINGTON — Students at Ursuline Academy gathered to celebrate the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi on Oct. 4. It was an opportunity for them to remember the saint who inspired the woman who founded the Ursuline Sisters and...
The Very Rev. Joseph W. McQuaide IV is appointed Judicial Vicar for the Diocese of Wilmington for a term of three years, effective Sept. 29. This is in addition to his appointments as diocesan chancellor, rector of the Cathedral...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis prayed for the tens of thousands of victims of clerical sexual abuse in France and urged the Catholic Church in the country to "undertake a path of redemption."
Pope Francis learned "with sorrow" of the...
WILMINGTON — The St. Elizabeth volleyball team dropped the first set against visiting Brandywine on Oct. 4, but they bounced back to win the next three sets for a 3-1 victory at the St. E Center. It was the...
Bishop John O. Barres thinks of the late Msgr. Joseph F. Rebman as his mentor, but he doesn’t believe that separates him much from the rest of the clergy in the Diocese of Wilmington.
“No question. I would say my...
A religious order that has been challenging construction of a natural gas transmission line through its Pennsylvania property for years expressed disappointment that a federal court judge dismissed their lawsuit rooted in religious freedom claims.
Attorney Dwight Yoder, representing the...
VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican announced that Pope Francis will formally launch the process of the Synod of Bishops with a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica.
The Oct. 10 Mass, which officially opens the synodal process, will be preceded by...
CHILDS, Md. — Father Gerard J. Mahoney, a professed member of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales for 58 years, died Oct. 2. He was 78.
Born in Philadelphia, Father Mahoney entered the Oblates after his graduation from Northeast...
Members of the Saint Thomas More Society of the Diocese of Wilmington hosted the annual Red Mass at St. Joseph's on the Brandywine Church in Wilmington on Oct. 3.
Bishop Koenig was presiding celebrant and homilist at the Mass.
"As we...