With football coming to a conclusion, attention turns fully to winter sports. It’s a fairly light week for basketball, wrestling and swimming as schools near the holiday break.
There are a few games of note. Saint Mark’s boys basketball travels...
VATICAN CITY -- During this "bitter time" of war, hunger, injustice and poverty, Our Lady of Guadalupe invites everyone to open their lives to her son, Jesus, and to learn to love others like he does, Pope Francis said.
"The...
CHICAGO (CNS) -- Father Michael Pfleger, 73, has been reinstated as senior pastor of the Faith Community of St. Sabina after the Chicago Archdiocese's Independent Review Board determined the accusations of sex abuse lodged against him in October are...
Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, the parent for Saint Francis Hospital in Wilmington, has been named a 2022 "Community Hospital High Performer" by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP), an international professional organization dedicated to development professionals who encourage charity in...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis is writing to all the heads of state around the world, asking them to consider granting some prisoners clemency at Christmas.
The Vatican press office said Dec. 12 that the pope is asking government leaders...
WILMINGTON -- More than 600 people arrived at Salesianum School for the “Magic of Christmas” show by the New York Tenors Dec. 11.
Tenors Daniel Rodriguez, Andy Cooney and Christopher Macchio – joined for part of the show by soprano...
The hymns we hear during Advent are one of the season's greatest consolations.
And is there any musical composition quite as evocative as the beautiful blend of "What Child Is This?" and the more recently written, "Child of the Poor"?
The...
These last few days of Advent draw us further into preparations, celebrations and "must do" activities. We might be feeling mighty frazzled, perhaps pulled in myriad directions, afraid we won't get it all done.
Blessedly, the readings for the fourth...
NEWARK – The St. Elizabeth football team fought for every yard in its DIAA Class 1A championship game against Laurel on Dec. 10. The Vikings fell behind, 14-0, and clawed back to within a point with just under eight...
MILLTOWN – Laurel's Carlie Venables hit a three-point shot to open the second quarter of the Bulldogs' girls basketball game at Saint Mark's on Dec. 9, but the Spartans responded by putting up the next 14 points on their...