The fall schedule comes to an end this weekend with four football state championship games at the University of Delaware. One will include St. Ellizabeth, which meets Laurel for the second consecutive year for the DIAA Class 1A title.
The...
Ever since I became a mom -- more than 20 years and four kids ago -- the Advent and Christmas season has taken on a whole different perspective for me. That perspective has opened up the meaning of the...
Advent is a "continuous call to hope," says Pope Francis. It seems, then, that a key aim of this pre-Christmas season is to focus attention on hope's immense importance for everyone.
But why? Is hope a problem? Sure, it can...
MILLTOWN — A season’s worth of wear and tear, coupled with some soaking rains in the previous 24 hours, left the playing surface at the Graveyard at Saint Mark’s High School soft, with standing water visible in spots. Add...
BEAR — After a promising start, little went right for Archmere in the Auks’ DIAA Class 2A football semifinal Dec. 2 at Caravel. The top-seeded Bucs scored 30 unanswered points in a 30-6 win and advance to the state...
WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth said he was "gravely disappointed" by the U.S. Senate's passage of the Respect for Marriage Act.
Bishop Robert E. Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, said...
IRA TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- For anyone interested in becoming Catholic, wishing to complete the sacraments or wanting to learn more about what the church teaches, the answer for decades was "join RCIA."
The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, the...
GREENVILLE — As the Saint Mark’s girls basketball team readied for the tipoff in their game Dec. 1 against Concord, coach Jim Freel told Bella Prado, who was there for the jump ball, exactly where to send the play.
Prado...
ST. INIGOES, Md. -- When Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory blessed a parish cemetery's memorial plaque honoring the unknown enslaved people buried there, Nov. 26, he noted the poignancy of his participation in the service at St. Peter Claver...
VATICAN CITY -- Presenting the Ratzinger Prize to a French Jesuit theologian and a Jewish law professor, Pope Francis paid tribute to his predecessor and his theological work.
"I have many opportunities for a personal, fraternal and affectionate encounter with...