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Snow wiped out the first two days of this high school sports week, which just means more action later this season. Another important week is on hand, with the SL24 Memorial Classic basketball event being held Friday and Saturday...
WASHINGTON — Ash Wednesday, as with many other things right now, will have a different look at many Catholic parishes across the United States this year. For starters, Catholic churches that are often standing-room only on this day — drawing...
WASHINGTON -- Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego warned against the "weaponization of Eucharist" as a way to get Catholic elected officials, President Joe Biden among them, to adhere to the church's stance on abortion. "I do not see...
DOVER — Brennan Macklin, a sixth-grade student at Holy Cross School in Dover, is the 2020-21 winner of the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ Patriot’s Pen youth essay contest, the school announced recently. The contest is open to sixth-, seventh-...
A teaching strategy used from kindergarten through grade 12 to help students understand comparison-contrast is a T-chart.  This simple device allows them to note what is similar and what is different when looking at two different concepts, events, places,...
WASHINGTON — Supreme Knight Carl Anderson urged the pro-life movement to remain committed to four foundational principles: justice, truth, democracy and compassion. “The first is our commitment to justice,” he said, adding that “since the day Moses returned from Mount...
VATICAN CITY — Abuses and violence against women are “acts of cowardice and a degradation of all humanity,” Pope Francis said. “We must not look the other way. Let us pray for women who are victims of violence, that they...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis said that unless there is a serious new wave of COVID-19 infections in Iraq, he has every intention of visiting the country in early March. Even if social distancing requirements mean most Iraqis will see...
VATICAN CITY  -- After a military coup and the detention of top government leaders in Myanmar, the auxiliary bishop of Yangon, the nation's largest city and former capital, called for prayers, caution and stocking up on provisions for the...
WASHINGTON -- This past year as the coronavirus cut through the United States, elderly women religious -- former teachers, nurses, social workers and pastoral care leaders -- were among those whose lives were cut short by COVID-19, the disease...

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