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CLAYMONT – Red Lion took advantage of seven Archmere errors and picked up a huge Diamond State Athletic Conference win, 10-4, on April 23. The Lions used two walks in the first inning to put runners on 2nd and third...
WASHINGTON — Outside of a week or two in the darkest days of winter, it’s always gardening season for Jana Hukriede. A key volunteer at Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri’s LifeHouse Crisis Maternity Home in Springfield, Hukriede finds that hardly...
BEIRUT — Catholic patriarchs from the Middle East invoked hope in their Easter messages to people suffering from terrorism, wars, displacement and economic hardship. From Baghdad, Cardinal Louis Sako, patriarch of Chaldean Catholics, emphasized “that our world, which is striving...
ROME — The proposed apostolic constitution for reforming and governing the Roman Curia is expected to emphasize the church’s missionary mandate with the creation of a “super-dicastery” merging two offices dedicated to evangelization. “The main point of the new apostolic...
BANGKOK -- The Sri Lankan government blamed little-known Islamic group National Thowheeth Jama'ath for the Easter suicide bombings that targeted three churches and three luxury hotels across the country. Authorities named the group April 22 and said 24 people had...
A new, pro-life set of stations of the cross was part of the Good Friday service at Cathedral Cemetery led by Bishop Malooly. “We decided to incorporate it into the regular stations,” said Mark Christian, executive director of Catholic Cemeteries...
The first sight of Notre Dame Cathedral on fire in Paris was a gut punch akin to watching the first broadcasts of the World Trade Center’s twin towers spewing smoke in 2001. The New York towers’ fire soon turned into...
VATICAN CITY -- On Easter Monday, Pope Francis led thousands of people in St. Peter's Square in praying for the hundreds of people who died or were injured in bomb blasts the previous day in Sri Lanka. Pope Francis had...
A lot of schools are on Easter break this week, but there is enough action to keep the high school sports fan occupied. It's also the one week of the spring season when some games will be played during...
Dear Friends in Christ:   Easter is the oldest and most important feast for Christians as it celebrates Christ’s glorious Resurrection from the dead. The Father loves us so much that He sent His son, Jesus, to suffer, die and rise...