Kenny Hunter Jr. of St. Elizabeth leads five boys high school basketball players from Catholic schools in earning all-state honors. The team was announced March 14 by the Delaware Sportswriters and Broadcasters Association, which conducts the vote along with...
Jezelle “GG” Banks, the highly touted sophomore guard from Ursuline Academy, has been named the Delaware girls' basketball player of the year. The team was announced March 14 by the Delaware Sportswriters and Broadcasters Association, which conducts the vote...
By Erin O’Leary, OSV News
Lent gets its name from a word meaning "springtime," the time of year when the hours of daylight are lengthening and the sun is bringing back its warmth and light.
The Lenten season, indeed all of...
A Satanic group's plans for a so-called "black mass" in the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka on March 28 have energized widespread Catholic condemnation.
In a March 6 post on Facebook, the Kansas Catholic Conference said such "a sacrilegious event" would...
VATICAN CITY -- Four weeks after Pope Francis was hospitalized and one day after the 12th anniversary of the pope's election, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, celebrated a Mass for the pope with ambassadors accredited to the...
"No one knows the end" of recent deadly violence in Syria, said Maronite Archbishop Antoine Chbair of Latakia and Tartus.
Hundreds of civilians have been killed since March 6 as Syria's security forces battled armed supporters of former Syria president...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis spent the 12th anniversary of his election to the papacy undergoing physiotherapy at Rome's Gemelli hospital, but he was well enough to celebrate it in little ways.
Along with the health care workers treating him,...
St. Joseph is one of the church's most popular saints. No other figure in history has more places named after him in the world. His significance in the church is understood by his veneration throughout the centuries and his...
Few annual events are more universally anticipated and celebrated than St. Patrick's Day. It seems that no place or people on earth are immune from the activities, the frivolities, the food and drink that take place every March 17.
The...
BEAR — When we talk about vocations, it is important to know that God is with us. God is leading us if we are open to his voice.
That was the message Bishop Koenig had for about a dozen high...