LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Jockey Mike Smith, a Catholic who rode Justify last year to a Triple Crown victory, prays before every race, but he doesn't pray to win.
The 145th Run for the Roses on May 4, when he will...
My buddy Dennis was the glue.
We had a couple of hundred volunteers at our parish festival every year. Some, like Dennis, were longtime, year-in and year-out stalwarts who had their own corner of the festival responsibilities that they could...
It was the Tuesday after Easter, and the priest who was celebrating Mass for our group of volunteers at an inner-city Jesuit middle school was practically bursting with joy.
"Alleluia," he exclaimed loudly, not just once but many times.
We were,...
CLAYMONT – Jake Fallers' two-run home run in the bottom of the fourth inning gave Archmere a lead it would not relinquish in a 5-2 win over Wilmington Charter in Diamond State Athletic Conference baseball on April 30.
Auks starting...
CLAYMONT – Padua's bats were hotter than the spring sun on the afternoon of April 30, as the Pandas rolled to a 20-0 win in five innings in nonconference softball at Archmere. The Pandas started the onslaught early, and...
WASHINGTON — Patrick Creadon, who made the new documentary “Hesburgh” about Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh, the priest who led the University of Notre Dame for 35 years, said that film wouldn’t have been possible had it not been...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A South African archbishop has urged the government to act against xenophobic attacks, which have increased as general elections approach.
“A fallout between South Africa and other African countries can only have disastrous consequences, hence...
VATICAN CITY — Polish Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the former archbishop of Krakow and longtime secretary to St. John Paul II, celebrated his 80th birthday April 27, ending his eligibility to vote in a conclave. With his birthday, the College...
WASHINGTON — For the past three centuries, Western societies have worked hard to “to construct a harmonious moral life through human reason alone, without God,” but “it doesn’t work,” Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput told a New York audience...
BRANDYWINE HUNDRED – Brandywine and St. Elizabeth spent the greater part of the first half in the middle of the field in their nonconference girls soccer match on April 29. As the half wore on, however, the host Bulldogs...