WASHINGTON -- Morgan Wootten, the legendary basketball coach at DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, died Jan. 21. He was 88.
Wootten led his teams to national prominence while teaching his players to prioritize God, family, school and basketball...
WASHINGTON — During oral arguments Jan. 22 about the constitutionality of excluding religious schools from a scholarship aid program, a divided Supreme Court seemed like it might lean toward finding a way to allow religious schools to participate.
The hourlong...
WARSAW, Poland — A Polish researcher has published the first study of religious practices among Christian prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau, as the 75th anniversary of the Nazi-run death camp’s liberation was marked in Israel and Poland.
“Although most deportees to Auschwitz...
WASHINGTON -- Pro-life supporters are "deeply honored to welcome" President Donald Trump to the 47th annual March for Life Jan. 24 rally in person, said Jeanne Mancini, March for Life president, in a statement late Jan. 22.
Trump announced he...
Sister LaVerne King, a Religious Sister of Mercy who has been the principal of Christ the Teacher Catholic School in Newark since before its opening in 2002, will retire when the current school year ends in June.
She notified the...
Several organizations throughout the diocese are providing bus transportation to the March for Life on Friday, Jan. 24. They are:
• Bus trip to the Annual March for Life, Washington, D.C. St. Thomas the Apostle Knights of Columbus has chartered...
SALISBURY, Md. — That wind that just blew past was probably just Ricky.
Patrick “Ricky” Gutierrez is a 14-year-old eighth-grader at St. Francis de Sales School. Gutierrez has twice been named All-State Chorus and is one of only two lower...
Sunday Scripture reading, Jan. 26, 2020: Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
1) Is 8:23-9:3
Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14
2) 1 Cor 1:10-13, 17
Gospel: Mt 4:12-23 or 4:12-17
Michelangelo Merisi, known to the world as Caravaggio, was a celebrated painter of his generation. He...
WASHINGTON -- Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia and has appointed Bishop Nelson J. Perez of Cleveland as his successor.
Archbishop Chaput, who has headed the Philadelphia Archdiocese since 2011, turned 75 last...
OXFORD, England — A Dutch Catholic newspaper warned churches will continue to close in the Netherlands, where half of all Catholic parishes have already been dissolved amid plummeting church participation.
“It’s never good to panic, but there are grave concerns...