MUNDELEIN, Ill. — After hearing the story of a Salvadoran immigrant and her plight to leave her home country, bishops from the U.S., Central America and Mexico meeting in Mundelein June 2 turned to a camera facing a woman...
“One of Us” is brief snapshot of people who support the church in various ways in the Diocese of Wilmington. We will regularly feature people who may be recognizable within their parish communities.
NAME: Susan Parker
HOMETOWN: Salisbury, MD
PARISH: St. Francis De Sales
What does...
GREENVILLE — During more than 20 years as pastor of St. Joseph on the Brandywine Parish in Greenville and 61 years as a priest, Msgr. Joseph Rebman accumulated a lot of things. Books – lots of books. Also vestments,...
BALTIMORE — Neither Archbishop John Carroll, the first Catholic bishop in the United States, who started the project to build America’s first cathedral, nor Archbishop Ambrose Maréchal, the third archbishop of Baltimore, who brought it to completion, could have...
School is done and summer has begun. But between registering kids for sports and mapping family road trips, I’ve had to catch myself. Where could we seek and find God in this new season, too?
Here are seven places you...
Sunday Scripture readings, June 6, 2021: The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ
1) Ex 24:3-8 Psalm 116:12-13, 15-16, 17-18
2) Heb 9:11-15 Gospel: Mk 14:12-16, 22-26
The power of blood in Scripture
A few years ago, the parish Bible discussion...
WILMINGTON — Bishop Malooly, apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Wilmington, has lifted the dispensation, and the obligation to attend Sunday and Holy Day Masses will be reinstated effective June 26. The announcement was made June 2 as part...
DOVER — Padua and Smyrna battled for nearly 45 minutes of the DIAA Division I girls soccer championship game tied at a goal each, and few in the crowded bleachers at Dover High School on June 1 would have...
DOVER — Saint Mark's girls soccer team had gone through the 2021 season undefeated, but the Caravel Buccaneers figured out how to stop the high-powered Spartans offense. The Bucs, the top seed in the 12-team postseason field, took the...
ARLINGTON, Va. — “No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
These words, while not identical in language to the oath every military member swears on entering the service, are identical in substance.
And...