Dante's "Paradiso" is the culmination of the journey begun in Canto I of his "Inferno," where he was lost in the dark wood and on the way to damnation.
His journey through hell and then purgatory have helped him to...
After the two poets, Dante and Virgil, emerge from hell, they begin to experience many signs of the enormous difference between "Inferno" and "Purgatorio" (hell and purgatory). Whereas hell was a place of static pain and punishment, purgatory is...
Tyler Christianson, a 2020 graduate of Ss. Peter and Paul High School in Easton, Md., spent part of his summer in Japan, but not on vacation. Christianson was a member of Panama’s Summer Olympics team, and he competed in...
WILMINGTON — St. Peter Cathedral School was buzzing in July with students who attended a four-week summer camp.
The first week included a museum visit, math games, computer coding, jazz music and other activities. The students also programmed robots and...
WASHINGTON — When Simone Biles, described as the world’s greatest gymnast, announced July 27 she would not be competing in a team event with the U.S. women’s Olympics gymnastics team and the next day withdrew from the all-around final,...
WASHINGTON — The refusal by the U.S. House to include the Hyde Amendment and other pro-life riders in appropriations bills before lawmakers passed the measures is an “injustice” that overshadows the provisions that help “vulnerable people,” said the chairmen...
Fifteen men are set to join the Diocese of Wilmington’s permanent diaconate when they are ordained on Aug. 7 at 11 a.m. at St. Joseph Church in Middletown. It is the first ordination since 2017 and will bring the...
WASHINGTON — As he offered three amendments to the State Department appropriations bill before the House July 28, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., asked his House colleagues in remarks from the floor, “Where is the justice and empathy and...
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in the middle of drafting a teaching document on the Eucharist, received words of advice from a panel convened July 28 to discuss the challenges facing the American church as it emerges from...
BOSTON — The Boston Globe reported July 29 that police in the Boston suburb of Wellesley have charged former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14 in a criminal complaint...