In Spring 2015, I attended an exhibition on the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. It was a fascinating display that illuminated aspects of the places and cultures in which Jesus and the...
DOVER — Holy Cross School raised nearly $32,000 during the #GiveCatholic campaign on Giving Tuesday, Dec. 1, joining thousands of other schools around the world in raising money and giving back to the community. As of Dec. 3, that...
Schools in the Diocese of Wilmington will continue with their current models of instruction at least through the beginning of the Christmas break, the Office for Catholic Schools said Dec. 3. The decision was made by the schools office...
BERLIN -- In other years, the glitter of Nuremberg's Christmas market during Advent attracts around 2 million visitors from all over the world. This year, because of COVID19, everything is different, and the city estimates the economic damage caused...
JERUSALEM -- Israeli police arrested a Jewish man after he allegedly threw a firebomb inside the Basilica of All Nations at Gethsemane Church on the Mount of Olives Dec. 4.
Though not immediately identified, the man was wearing a large...
WILMINGTON — Padua’s field hockey team spent more than half of its game on Dec. 3 trying to match Polytech’s single goal, and with just under 12 minutes left, the Pandas finally equalized. But the Panthers answered quickly, and...
Basketball, the only winter sport sponsored by the Office of Catholic Youth Ministry in the Diocese of Wilmington, will be delayed until early January in accordance with a decision was made by the diocese. Parishes, schools and teams were...
WILMINGTON – A priest of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales and former principal of Salesianum School was indicted and arraigned Dec. 3 in U.S. District Court on three counts of child pornography offenses.
Father William McCandless, 56, was...
CLEVELAND — Laid off from her information technology job last Thanksgiving, then evicted for falling behind on the rent two months later and having to keep six children, fed, Bianca Simone needed options.
Even though her boyfriend, Drew Tunnell, still...
SAO PAULO — A Brazilian nun who has moved into the finals of a TV cooking show said she received “divine help” and prayed the entire time she was cooking.
The “divine help,” she said, helped her notice that the...