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DIOCESE OF WILMINGTON OFFICIAL APPOINTMENT The following appointments are effective as indicated: Reverend Thomas Flowers, is granted retirement from active ministry effective May 1, 2020. Reverend Monsignor Charles Brown, III, is appointed Temporary Administrator of St. Jude the Apostle Parish, Lewes, DE.  This...
Documenting their personal experience while in quarantine during this global pandemic, students, faculty, community and non-community residents of Aston, such as international citizens have been recording their stories to be aired in a podcast series created by Neumann Unviersity’s...
Diocese of Wilmington Catholic schools in Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland are closed for the remainder of the school year, Lou De Angelo, superintendent of schools for the diocese announced April 24. De Angelo said distance learning will...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis prayed for teachers and students who are trying to adapt and to do their work online during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Let us pray today for teachers who have to work so hard in order to...
ROME -- Like bishops in the United States and Canada, the bishops of Italy will begin the Marian month of May consecrating their nation to the care of Mary with special prayers for her intercession in ending the coronavirus...
WASHINGTON -- The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and two other Catholic bishops criticized President Donald Trump's April 22 executive order to temporarily restrict some forms of immigration during the pandemic, saying it could "fuel polarization...
By Edith Avila Olea What prayer has been getting you through the pandemic? For me, it’s been staying close to the beatitudes: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who mourn, for...
CLEVELAND -- The federal small-business loan program created in response to the coronavirus pandemic has allowed the Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee, to keep all of its part-time employees on board. For that, school superintendent Rebecca Hammel is grateful. She told Catholic...
By Father Norm Carroll, pastor at St. Elizabeth and vocation director, Diocese of Wilmington The Gospel of Luke today offers us the story of two of the disciples on the way to Emmaus where they encountered Jesus. The point of the...
"Sacraments are those signs that achieve in human hearts and lives what they signify to human minds," University of Notre Dame theologian Jesuit Father Brian Daley once said. At this time of the coronavirus pandemic, most are unable to receive...