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To the Class of 2020. Gee, what was it like?  This question will be asked of the Class of 2020 multiple times as you mature into your future.  Children and grandchildren will wish to know how you survived the pandemic...
Bishop Malooly livestreams Mass from the Cathedral of St. Peter in Wilmington on the feast of the Pentecost. Although public gatherings have been cancelled during the stay-at-home order to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, many parishes in the Diocese of Wilmington are offering...
Rachael Casey, the principal of St. Thomas More Academy in Magnolia, will join the administrative team and faculty at Saint Mark’s High School beginning in July, Saint Mark’s announced this week. Casey will serve as the director of academic...
WASHINGTON -- Since the coronavirus pandemic was declared in March, not everybody's job has been relocated to their dining room table. Not when there's an unemployment rate of 14.7%, with some economists suggesting one in five Americans are out of...
Maybe you’ve read about people, who during our time of pandemic isolation, discovered rats had built nests under the hoods of their parked, neglected cars. Apparently all those empty restaurant trash bins drove rats to find new accommodations and more...
"At a time when things are most uncertain, we turn to the most certain thing there is: science." So begins a television ad that the Pfizer corporation began running in April, to celebrate efforts by its scientists and others to...
FATHER JOSEPH W. McQUAIDE iV Last week, in our reading from Saint Luke’s Acts of the Apostles, the apostolic band was left with mouths agape staring at the sky after Our Lord had ascended to sit at the right hand...
VIENNA -- As people spent more time online during the coronavirus lockdown, negative remarks and even the incitement of hatred based on national, cultural or religious identity increased, a Vatican representative said. Discrimination on social media can lead to violence,...
OXFORD, England -- Catholic groups across Europe have echoed Pope Francis' call for a universal basic wage as part of recovery plans after the coronavirus pandemic. "No one in the church should be against a decent minimum wage which saves...
CLEVELAND -- Catholic churches in Minnesota reopened for the public celebration of Mass May 27, but not before the state's bishops took a bold stance to assert that churches were as important as bars, restaurants and hair salons. The bishops...