CLAYMONT — Caravel’s girls basketball team found the formula for success in the second quarter of their game Jan. 14 at Archmere. It consisted of smothering defense combined with deadly long-distance shooting that allowed the Buccaneers to open up...
BRANDYWINE HUNDRED — The dual meets Jan. 13 between visiting Saint Mark’s and host Concord pitted four teams that entered the event with unblemished records. When the bubbles settled, the Raiders had one remaining undefeated, and so did the...
The terrorism trial of Sayfullo Saipov, who is accused of fatally striking eight people with a truck in New York City in 2017, began Jan. 9 and marks the first federal death penalty case heard under President Joe Biden,...
WASHINGTON -- Like his five most recent predecessors, President Joe Biden has issued a proclamation declaring Jan. 16 Religious Freedom Day and calling for the protection of religious freedom in the U.S. and around the globe.
First celebrated in 1993,...
WASHINGTON -- Catholics "must act" for racial justice, starting with personal conversion, to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle and eliminate racial injustices in society, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops stated.
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio...
Days before the Maryland General Assembly’s session began Jan. 11, Maryland Catholic Conference Executive Director Jenny Kraska noted that – even with a new governor and new legislators – many of the same topics the church addresses perennially will...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis' condemnations of the threat of nuclear war are "indispensable," said the head of the U.N. nuclear energy agency.
Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, met with Pope Francis at the Vatican...
Catholic leaders in Illinois are hailing the state's newly enacted ban on assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and switches.
"The Catholic Conference of Illinois would like to commend the Illinois General Assembly and Governor J.B. Pritzker on banning assault weapons and...
For the past three months, I’ve enjoyed a delightful new Monday ritual. After coffee with my husband and morning prayer, I pack my brown bag lunch, gather my backpack and walk a mile to a nondescript brick building on...
In the church today, young adults Catholics are often given a bad rap. Data have shown that our age group is disassociating from the Catholic Church in droves, and we are sometimes perceived generationally as being non-committal, for having...