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Saint Mark’s High School alumnus Chris Murphy takes reins of Spartans baseball program
10/10/2025

Saint Mark’s High School alumnus Chris Murphy takes reins of Spartans baseball program

MILLTOWN — Chris Murphy, a 2011 graduate of Saint Mark’s High School and a member of two state championship baseball teams there, has been named the new coach of the Spartans. He succeeds the late Matt Smith, who was Murphy’s coach at the school. Murphy is a faculty member at Saint Mark’s, w...

Marian Pilgrimage, Nun Run, Coats for Kids and more happening in the Diocese of Wilmington
10/10/2025

Marian Pilgrimage, Nun Run, Coats for Kids and more happening in the Diocese of Wilmington

Have you mae plans for Saturday’s Marian Pilgrimage yet? Don’t delay, it’s in two days. Set aside Saturday, Oct. 11, to attend the Diocese of Wilmington Annual Marian Pilgrimage at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. Join Bishop Koenig and pries...

Help for parents who have lost a child with Red Bird Ministries’ Kelly Breaux on the latest Catholic Forum
10/10/2025

Help for parents who have lost a child with Red Bird Ministries’ Kelly Breaux on the latest Catholic Forum

On this episode of Catholic Forum, after a news update from The Dialog, we talk with the president and co-founder of Red Bird Ministries, Kelly Breaux. Kelly and her husband, Ryan, did not find the help they needed from their church when their two children passed away. With God’s help, they decide...

There is no denying that the church Leo now leads is much more divided and polarized than the church inherited by his pr...
10/09/2025

There is no denying that the church Leo now leads is much more divided and polarized than the church inherited by his predecessor.

Five months into his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV has promulgated his first official document, making as his own the draft of a text unfinished by his predecessor. Described as an exercise in “continuity” with Pope Francis, the apostolic exhortation is an ode to the 265th Successor of Peter while a...

Pope Leo XIV’s first apostolic exhortation “Dilexi Te” (“I have loved you”) explores love and charity for the poor.
10/09/2025

Pope Leo XIV’s first apostolic exhortation “Dilexi Te” (“I have loved you”) explores love and charity for the poor.

Pope Leo XIV’s first apostolic exhortation “Dilexi Te” (“I have loved you”), promulgated Oct. 9, 2025 — the feast day of St. John Henry Newman — explores love and charity for the poor. Here are 12 quotes to give a sense of what the document contains: 1. “Christian love breaks down ev...

Police said Father Pataleón’s driver was a suspect in the priest’s murder.
10/08/2025

Police said Father Pataleón’s driver was a suspect in the priest’s murder.

Another priest has been found murdered in a violent southern Mexican state, where Catholic bishops’ have brokered truces between warring drug cartels and clergy have been killed with impunity. The body of Father Bertoldo Pantaleón Estrada was discovered Oct. 6 in the municipality of Mezcal in Gue...

The 2025 report “will focus on the concept of reparations and introduces key new external data sources.”
10/07/2025

The 2025 report “will focus on the concept of reparations and introduces key new external data sources.”

KRAKOW, Poland — As the Pontifical Commission for the Protection Minors concluded its Sept. 29-Oct. 3 assembly in Kraków, “following five days of intensive dialogue, reflection and strategic planning,” it prepares to publish its second annual report Oct. 16. It’s “much better than the fir...

Visitors to the basilica would also see Bernini’s baldachin, “which now shines forth in all of its original beauty.”
10/06/2025

Visitors to the basilica would also see Bernini’s baldachin, “which now shines forth in all of its original beauty.”

VATICAN CITY — Two of the most important tenets of the Catholic faith are the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist and the pope as the successor of Peter, who unites and guides the church, Pope Leo XIV said. The pope’s remarks came during an audience at the Vatican Oct. 6 with members of […...

According to Gaza’s Health Ministry more than 67,000 people have been killed in the ensuing war.
10/06/2025

According to Gaza’s Health Ministry more than 67,000 people have been killed in the ensuing war.

JERUSALEM — As indirect ceasefire talks began in Egypt between Israel and Hamas Oct. 6 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt — aimed at finalizing a ceasefire deal based on a proposal from U.S. President Donald Trump — the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem lauded it as an “important and long-awaited first st...

Pope Leo XIV continued the theme of poverty in his catechesis during the Oct. 4 Jubilee audience.
10/06/2025

Pope Leo XIV continued the theme of poverty in his catechesis during the Oct. 4 Jubilee audience.

VATICAN CITY — The Jubilee Year requires making a choice: serving God and justice or money and inequity, Pope Leo XIV said, marking the Jubilee of Migrants and the Jubilee of the Missions. “We pray to be a church that does not serve money or itself, but the kingdom of God and his justice,” he ...

On Oct. 2, Philippine officials said they would end rescue efforts and shift instead to giving aid to the more than 20,0...
10/06/2025

On Oct. 2, Philippine officials said they would end rescue efforts and shift instead to giving aid to the more than 20,000 displaced residents.

Pope Leo XIV said prayers for victims of a 6.9 magnitude earthquake in the central part of the Philippines that killed at least 72 people late Sept. 30, according to Archbishop Alberto Uy of Cebu. The archbishop said Oct. 2 he received the message of the pope’s prayers and condolences from the Phi...

Father Domenico Mercante approached the commander to make a deal. “Shoot me instead of my flock,” he proposed. The comma...
10/06/2025

Father Domenico Mercante approached the commander to make a deal. “Shoot me instead of my flock,” he proposed. The commander accepted.

(Homily delivered at the Red Mass Oct. 6 for the St. Thomas More Society of the Diocese of Wilmington at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Church). By Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio Archdiocese of the Military Services First of all, I am very grateful to Bishop Koenig for the invitation to join you this a...

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