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"You Can't Go Home Again" is the title of a once-famous novel by Thomas Wolfe. There is deep wistfulness in his novel, for he believed that going home again is bound to be a great disappointment. Not so with the...
CLAYMONT — New faces paid dividends for the Archmere softball team in their season opener on March 26. Freshman Ava Milewski pitched a two-hitter with eight strikeouts, and classmate Juliet Polsky went three for three and drove in four...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As Pope Francis continues his convalescence, the Vatican published a full calendar of Holy Week and Easter liturgies with no indication of who would preside or be the main celebrant. The list of Masses and other...
These days it seems that we hear about some new crisis in our world on the news or social media almost every hour. It's enough to keep us up at night with worry. But Padre Pio reminds us that...
Sunday Scripture readings for March 30, 2025, Fourth Sunday of Lent Jos 5:9a, 10-12  Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7  2 Cor 5:17-21  Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 We usually forget about the running. When we consider this Sunday's scripture and the heart-stopping story of the...
WILMINGTON — It was a night of firsts at Salesianum on March 25 when the baseball team opened Fusco Field under the lights against Tower Hill. The defending state champion Sals combined solid pitching with great defense and clutch...
WASHINGTON -- Ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas will have "dire consequences" for civil society's future and is likely to worsen the region's tensions for another generation, Bishop A. Elias Zaidan, chair of the U.S....
BALTIMORE -- The collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024, left an indelible mark on countless lives -- from grieving families to stranded seafarers and displaced workers. Six construction workers -- immigrants from Mexico, El Salvador,...
PHILADELPHIA -- Several diocesan overseers of federally funded school meal programs told OSV News that Trump administration changes stand to leave some children's plates empty, while potentially making surviving versions of the programs too burdensome to operate. In mid-March, the...
BEAR — High school-aged children from all parishes of the Iron Hill Deanery gathered at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in Bear on March 23 for a deanery-wide retreat. More than 40 young people reflected on the theme “Pilgrims...