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Two-plus months of practice and game action comes to an end this week in volleyball, field hockey and soccer as the DIAA championships have arrived. Postseason play is just getting started in football, where two Catholic school teams are...
Ursuline captured its second consecutive Division II cross-country state championship on Nov. 9, and it took a total team effort, particularly from the Raiders’ non-scoring runners. By placing all seven runners in the top 19, the Raiders were able...
SMYRNA — Two goals within minutes of the halftime intermission — one before and one after — were enough for Archmere in its DIAA Division II boys soccer tournament matchup with Saint Mark’s on Nov. 9. The Auks scored...
MILLTOWN — Liam Mara scored five touchdowns to lead a potent Salesianum offense to a 54-7 win over Saint Mark’s in the annual football battle between the archrivals. It was the Sals’ fifth straight win over the Spartans. Mara, a...
Father Edward J. Kaczorowski, a retired priest of the Diocese of Wilmington, died Nov. 8, the diocese announced. He was 91 and had been a priest for 61 years. Father Kaczorowski was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and was educated in...
It has been a rough 18 months for the U.S. bishops. Much as they would like it to be over, some observers, including a fellow bishop, think they still have a long way to go. The cascade of bad news...
MANCHESTER  -- Catholic priests would die rather than break the seal of confession to report child abusers to the police, said an English cardinal. Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster told the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse that the English...
WILMINGTON — Two first-half goals proved to be enough for Padua in a DIAA Division I field hockey tournament game Nov. 7 against Smyrna, and the second-seeded Pandas are advancing to the semifinals after a 3-1 win. The game,...
The King James Version of the Bible states that when the prodigal son "came to himself," he thought, "How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger." In a lecture at...
WASHINGTON — Sister Helen Prejean, Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of Austin, Texas, and the Catholic Mobilizing Network have been joined by celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Rihanna, Meek Mill and Kim Kardashian West in urging Texas Gov. Greg Abbott...