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PIKE CREEK — Odessa and Padua softball were swinging the bats on April 23, with the Pandas holding on for a 12-10 victory at Midway Softball Complex. The Ducks scored three times in the first inning, two on a single...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- An Argentine priest who works with the country's poorest and most vulnerable people is hopeful that Pope Francis will visit the community during a proposed trip to the pontiff's homeland later this year. Father Pedro Cannavó,...
Catholics working to address the nation's fentanyl problem told OSV News a new congressional report naming China -- and blaming its government -- as the key source of the drug is important but old news, and that healing rising...
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on April 22 heard a case concerning the constitutionality of local laws that ban public camping and their impact on people who are homeless. The case concerns an ordinance adopted by Grants Pass, Oregon, prohibiting...
VATICAN CITY -- As doctors were preparing to certify the brain death of a Brazilian man in 2010, members of a local Catholic charismatic prayer group began to pray for a miracle. Pope Francis recognized the healing of the man,...
A Knights of Columbus council reportedly has called for the removal of artwork by Father Marko Rupnik at a national shrine, following the disgraced priest's decades-long legacy of sexual and spiritual abuse claims by multiple victims. The Knights' Patrick Cardinal...
CLAYMONT — Delaney Miklus scored a free-position goal with 1:21 to go as Caesar Rodney finished up a strong second half with an 8-7 girls lacrosse victory at Archmere on April 22. With the win, the Riders remained undefeated...
Father Thomas A. Flowers, a priest of the Diocese of Wilmington for more than 46 years, died April 17. He was 73. Father Flowers was a longtime pastor until his retirement in 2020. He was also the state chaplain for...
Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S. are breathing a sigh of relief and prayers of gratitude, after a bill for aid to Ukraine cleared the House of Representatives following months of delay, political infighting and even openly anti-Ukrainian sentiment among...
ROME -- The Catholic Church in the United States is grappling with a tendency to become more "auto-referential" and withdraw itself from the international stage and universal church, Pope Francis' representative to the United States said. Speaking with Catholic News...

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