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It’s that time of year, again, when the waking air has a chill crispness to it, and the hallways are lined with bookbags full of fresh spiral notebooks, binders still blank of the doodles of midwinter boredom and the...
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea -- With a 21-cannon salute, Pope Francis was welcomed to Papua New Guinea Sept. 6, the second stop on his four-nation visit to Asia and the Pacific. After flying five and a half hours from...
JAKARTA, Indonesia  -- Not long after Pope Francis left Indonesia, authorities there announced they had arrested seven people for making online "terror threats" against the pope. Aswin Siregar, spokesman for Densus 88, Indonesia's counter-terrorism police unit, made the announcement Sept....
ASTON, Pa. — Sister Corda Marie Bergbauer, the former superior general of the Sisters of St. Francis, died at Crozer Chester Medical Center on Sept. 5. A native of Philadelphia, she was a professed member of the Sisters of...
On the occasion of St. John Paul II's 1984 visit to Fairbanks, Alaska, at the start of a trip to Far East nations, President Ronald Reagan highlighted the pontiff's work to ensure "rights and dignity of the individual and...
St. Elizabeth opens the 2024 football season at home against Archmere on Sept. 7 with a roster that mixes experience in a few key spots with plenty of youth. The roster is evenly split, with half being juniors and...
Q: What is the criteria determining who can wear a "clerical collar"? I'm not sure if it varies from one seminary/diocese to another, but I'm curious why seminary students would wear a collar since they are not a member...
By Woodeene Koenig-Bricker Our lives have knots that can seem impossible to untie: marriage troubles, money problems, unemployment, illness, loneliness, fears and worries of all kinds. When we find ourselves facing challenges and seem to have no solutions, there is...
A veteran Archmere football team takes the field Sept. 7 against St. Elizabeth in search of the program's third trip to the state championship game in the last four years. The Auks face a challenging road to get there,...
Whether our hopes for this summer have been fulfilled or not, the season is waning. Most kids have returned to school, and the full force of the fall calendar is poised to kick in. All we can do now...