WASHINGTON — Many Catholic dioceses and archdioceses across the country — which closed their parish doors for a time at the start of the pandemic last year and have gradually opened them to limited occupancy in the past year...
As a child growing up in the 1960s I have fond memories of Memorial Day. Back then, the holiday was always celebrated on May 30. My father, a veteran of World War II, always loved this holiday. We would...
From staff and wire reports
In the same week that the U.S. Supreme court decided it will hear a case out of Mississippi on a law banning most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, the St. Thomas More Society of...
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ATLANTA — As their blended voices filled the chapel, its ceiling painted to resemble a star-filled night, the 10 women and men chanted: “Dum Transisset Sabbatum, Maria Magdalene et Maria Jacobi et Salome emerunt aromata, ut venientes ungerent Jesum....
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco’s archbishop said May 17 that the “positive reaction” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has expressed about a Vatican official’s letter to the U.S. bishops about Catholic politicians who support abortion receiving Communion “raises hope that...
Sunday Scripture reading, May 23, 2021, Pentecost Sunday (Vigil Mass)
1) Ez 37:1-14 Psalm 104:1-2, 24, 35, 27-28, 29, 30
2) Rom 8:22-27 Gospel: Jn 7:37-39
Pentecost presents us with God's vision for the future
Of the many possible readings for Pentecost (between...
"One of Us” is a 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: Ray Worrall
HOMETOWN: Newark
PARISH: St. Thomas...
WILMINGTON — St. Elizabeth did all of its offensive damage in two innings, and two pitchers combined for 11 strikeouts as the No. 29 Vikings defeated No. 36 Woodbridge, 9-1, in the play-in round of the 2021 DIAA state...
WASHINGTON — The same day the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear a Mississippi appeal of a lower court’s decision to strike down the state’s 15-week abortion ban, it dismissed suits against a Trump administration Title X policy.
That...
WASHINGTON — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a bill requiring death-row inmates to choose between the electric chair or the firing squad for their executions if lethal injection drugs are not available.
The measure, signed by...