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The next-to-last full week of the regular season for fall high school sports has arrived for field hockey, volleyball and soccer. But the dwindling number of games doesn't mean that there aren't several compelling matchups to see. On Tuesday, neighboring...
If Diocese of Wilmington Catholics have a home away from home, on Oct. 11 their favored gathering space was the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. From first timers to people who have made multiple...
Washington state's government and its Catholic bishops reached an agreement Oct. 10 in a federal lawsuit over the state's mandatory reporter law they said could force priests to violate the seal of confession. In an order filed with the U.S....
CLAYMONT — Homecoming weekend at Archmere worked out well for the Auks. They scored five times in the first half on the way to a 48-6 win over Mount Pleasant in Class 2A District 1 football. A bad snap on...
MILLTOWN — Ta'Son Wallace had a breakout game for Saint Mark's, picking up 180 yards on the ground with five touchdowns in the Spartans' 47-7 win over Polytech on Oct. 10 at the Graveyard. Saint Mark's, playing in front...
PARIS — At just 29, Sister Albertine Debacker is proving that habit and hashtag can go hand in hand. The French nun has become an unexpected but powerful voice for the church, reaching hundreds of thousands of young people where...
Thanks to the availability of instantaneous, global communication and our addiction to it, 21st century humans are permitted — perhaps condemned is a better word — to witness daily episodes of brutality and violence and, particularly over the past...
NEWARK — Two of the top volleyball programs in Delaware got together on Oct. 9, and three sets were not enough to decide a winner. Neither was four. Newark Charter and Saint Mark’s went the distance, five sets, before...
VATICAN CITY — Religious freedom is "a cornerstone of any just society" and contributes to building peace, Pope Leo XIV said. Welcoming a delegation to the Vatican Oct. 10 from Aid to the Church in Need, Pope Leo said the...
MILLTOWN — Chris Murphy, a 2011 graduate of Saint Mark’s High School and a member of two state championship baseball teams there, has been named the new coach of the Spartans. He succeeds the late Matt Smith, who was...