MILLTOWN — Saint Mark’s had held the Cape Henlopen baseball team scoreless for five innings on May 9, but they still needed six outs to beat the defending state champions. Cape scored three times in the sixth to cut...
Questioned by the confreres of a Hungarian Jesuit kidnapped with another priest and imprisoned during Argentina's murderous military dictatorship, Pope Francis said, "I did what I felt I had to do to defend them. It was a very painful...
ASTON, Pa. — Sister Mary Patricia Johnson, formerly Sister Mary Amata, a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 58 years, died May 8 in Assisi House. She was 88.
A native of Philadelphia, Sister Mary...
Three years ago, Helen Verriotto was a 27-year-old mother of one, pregnant with her second child — and homeless.
Both of her parents had died years earlier: her mother while Verriotto was still a little girl, and her father just...
When Mattel announced the release of a Barbie doll portrayed with Down syndrome April 25, the global toymaker explained the addition to its product line is intended "to allow even more children to see themselves in Barbie."
But a corresponding...
WASHINGTON — As Title 42 draws to its scheduled close, House Republicans are planning to vote on border security legislation criticized by the U.S. bishops.
Title 42, scheduled to end May 11, is a part of federal U.S. public health...
EASTON, Md. — Scott Wilson, who has spent the last 16 years at an international baccalaureate school in Virginia, has been appointed the next principal of Ss. Peter and Paul High School in Easton, Md., the school board announced...
GREENVILLE — Two seniors honored on May 8 at Tatnall’s girls lacrosse senior day are playing NCAA Division I next season, and they were the two main reasons the Hornets remained undefeated against Delaware competition after a 20-4 victory...
A vehicle crashed into a crowd waiting at a bus stop outside a migrant shelter in the border city of Brownsville, Texas, killing at least seven people and injuring at least 10 others, authorities said.
Around 8:30 a.m. May 7,...
Dallas Bishop Edward J. Burns addressed the faithful of the diocese "with a heavy heart" late May 6 after at least eight people, including a child, were killed during a mass shooting that afternoon at an outlet mall in...