Our Diocese
Who We Are
For over 150+ years the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wilmington has been called and commissioned to:
- Be a community of faith living the love poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
- To proclaim the good news of salvation announced through Jesus Christ and confided to the Church.
- To celebrate in liturgy, especially in Eucharist, the saving act of God in Christ.
- To strengthen our allegiance to the Gospel and deepen our understanding of it.
- To serve all our brothers and sisters as Jesus taught us.
- Pro-life community will mark ‘Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children’ on Jan. 22
The “Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children” will be observed in Dover on Jan. 22, the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision by the United States Supreme Court in 1973. The commemoration, which takes place nationwide, includes special prayers, penance […]
- Praying for a grandchild is becoming commonplace as the birth rate continues to decrease in U.S. and elsewhere
There’s been a lot written about falling birth rates in the United States. Less covered has been the simultaneous decline in grandparenthood. Grandparents, to hear friends tell it, are an endangered species. Virtually every child-bearing demographic group except women over 40 […]
- Catholic Forum: In the new ‘Faces of Impact’ series, meet two Salesianum students supporting life
On this Catholic Forum episode, after a news update from The Dialog and TheDialog.org, and after music from Catholic Treasures Classics for Worship, we present the first in a series of “Faces of Impact” interviews featuring some of the people behind the Catholic […]


