“I express my deep gratitude for the trust placed in me by His Holiness, Pope Francis in appointing me the tenth Bishop of Wilmington, Delaware.”
April, 2021
Praying for our priests+
Remember a diocesan priest and seminarian each day with special calendar.
At 108, Dominican sister says God ‘just wants me to hang around’+
Sister Francis Dominici Piscatella, who celebrated her 108 birthday April 20, is the second-oldest woman religious in the U.S.
Diocese announces new school in Suffolk, new governance model for Nassau school+
The newly formed Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic School will have two campuses at existing schools; a new governance model is set for Holy Name of Mary School, Valley Stream.
Pope calls for monthlong global prayer marathon for end of pandemic+
It is the heartfelt desire of the Holy Father that the month of May be dedicated to a prayer marathon.
Panel: Politicizing border issue overshadows serious plight of migrants+
"We're so focused on this border situation that we don't ask ourselves why are they leaving home."
Should suffering shake our faith?+
'I don’t think that anyone who reads the Scriptures carefully could ever conclude that belief in a loving God is somehow incompatible with suffering.'
Research with fetal tissue from elective abortion called ‘deeply offensive’+
U.S. Bishops’ Pro-Life Committee chairman denounces reversal of limits on human fetal tissue research
Pope calls all Catholics to be missionaries of God’s mercy+
"We do not confess to abase ourselves, but to be raised up," the Pope said, and "we -- all of us -- need this badly."
Holocaust’s ‘righteous’ need to be remembered, too, survivor’s son says+
The number of Holocaust survivors is dwindling but so, too, are those "righteous Gentiles" who saved Jews who were almost certain to perish.
