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In 2023, my best friend was pregnant with her sixth child. It was a cesarean scar pregnancy, which for doctors is quite obvious: "Of course you'll terminate right? Your uterus may blow any minute and you'll orphan five kids....
TIJUANA, Mexico -- Antonia Brenner was twice divorced and had raised seven children when she gave up her comfortable life in Southern California to live in a small prison cell in the border city of Tijuana. The onetime Beverly Hills...
VATICAN CITY  -- For the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and for millions of other people as well, the Catholic Church's 2025 was primarily about the death of Pope Francis and the election of Pope Leo XIV. In fact, the Wikimedia...
The words went out over a social media platform, made more poignant for the accompanying image of Pope Leo XIV consoling a weeping Lebanese woman. I couldn't help thinking "perhaps the whole world needed it, and needs this pope, for...
By Tish Galu St. Vincent de Paul Society What would you do if an unexpected disaster hit the east coast? How would our diocese respond and where would we go for help? There are more unexpected weather events happening every year across...
WASHINGTON -- In a Dec. 11 court filing, a federal judge in Maryland ordered the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national and Maryland resident at the center of a high-profile immigration case, from ICE custody "immediately." Abrego Garcia's...
Nate Stromberg has been appointed the regional director of patient experience by Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, the health system that owns Saint Francis Hospital in Wilmington. Stromberg will be responsible for enhancing the company’s “compassionate, patient-centered care,” Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic...
PLYMOUTH, Mich. -- Since the October ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war, people in Palestine are living in abject ruin, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa said at a news conference in Plymouth, a western suburb of Detroit. "The only difference is that we...
In 1937, leaders of the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis established a philanthropic foundation created to support Christian seminaries. Lilly Endowment Inc. recently announced 45 recipients of its Pathways for Tomorrow Initiative, which aims to help theological...
The Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association announced penalties for several schools at its Dec. 11 board meeting for violations of its out-of-season coaching regulation stemming from an event held in August. A total of six coaches were suspended, including Lonnie Wright...