“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
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.
We’re all becoming Platonists now — and that’s not good+
Under pressure from the “woke,” politically-correct culture, almost all of us automatically think in terms of generic categories and not in terms of individuals.
