ST. PAUL, Minn. -- As the Twin Cities and the nation continue to absorb events that led to the April 20 guilty verdict of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, Minnesota's Catholic leaders...
(The following personal essay won a silver medal in the 2021 national Scholastic Writing Competition).
By Rafferty Hill
St. Ann's (Wilmington) Seventh Grader
Remember
Do you ever just forget something? Something just slips from your mind? Then an hour later you remember it...
The action in the boys' sports will be heating up, along with the weather. There’s something for everyone every day of the week as the teams turn their eyes toward postseason positioning.. Grab a cold drink and find a...
THRISSUR, India -- Catholic hospital directors in India told Catholic News Service they did not have enough facilities to treat patients as India set records for the number of COVID-19 deaths -- numbers many people believe were underreported.
"The situation...
Fields around the state will be busy all week as girls high school sports turn it up a gear as the seasons enter their second half.
Girls
Softball
Monday
Delmarva Christian (4-3) at Archmere (3-7), 3:45 p.m.
Polytech (1-9) vs. Padua (4-5), 3:45 p.m....
VATICAN CITY -- In the wake of a deadly fire in a Baghdad hospital treating COVID-19 patients and more migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea, Pope Francis prayed for the victims of the disasters and their families.
After reciting the...
"Everything is interconnected." Those three words serve as a key to unlocking the purpose of Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical "Laudato Si'" on the urgent need to give care to the planet Earth, "our common home."
Those three words also help...
In 1891, Pope Leo XIII articulated his vision of Catholic social teaching impacting the affairs of our world. Like Jesus, who entered the world among the poor and outcasts, Catholic social teaching endeavors to speak to the lives of...
MILLTOWN — Seven innings was not enough for Smyrna and Saint Mark’s on the baseball diamond on April 24. The Eagles tied the game in the seventh, but it would take three more innings before the Spartans scratched out...
MILLTOWN — Saint Mark’s girls soccer team improved to 8-0 on the season with a 6-1 win over Newark on April 24. The Spartans scored three times in each half as they handled the Yellow Jackets.
Their first goal came...