All five Catholic high school girls basketball teams will be playing in the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association basketball tournament, which begins March 2 with eight games on campuses around the state. The highest seed is St. Elizabeth. The Vikings...
Salesianum earned the top seed in the 2022 Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association boys basketball tournament, which begins on March 1 with eight first-round games. The Sals, along with the following seven seeds, will not play until the second round,...
WASHINGTON -- On a day when the world saw the heart-rending images of Russia launching a brutal invasion of Ukraine, people gathered at the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family in Washington Feb. 24.
They stood in solidarity,...
VATICAN CITY -- As Russia continued its assault on Ukraine and Russian troops pressed toward the capital, Kyiv, Pope Francis left the Vatican Feb. 25 to pay a visit to the Russian ambassador to the Holy See.
The pope went...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis' April visit to Malta, while brief, will include stops at three cities and an island, as well as meetings with authorities, local Catholics and migrants.
The Vatican Feb. 25 released the pope's schedule for the...
PHILADELPHIA -- Women religious in Ukraine are facing Russia's full-scale invasion of that nation with determined faith and a commitment to service.
Two sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great spoke with CatholicPhilly.com directly from Ukraine Feb. 23...
PHILADELPHIA — Ukraine is “being crucified before the eyes of the world,” said the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
Speaking by telephone from Paris to CatholicPhilly.com Feb. 24 — the day Russian armed forces invaded Ukraine —...
WASHINGTON -- As war broke out in Europe Feb. 24, with Russia's early morning attacks on various parts of Ukraine, Catholics in the U.S. joined Pope Francis in prayers for the people of the East European nation and for...
WASHINGTON — In Washington, one doesn’t need to go bird-watching with binoculars to spot a rare creature. Instead, all one needs to do is look at the hawks and doves in the Capitol.
Inside, there is an increasingly rare breed:...
The headlines and images demonstrating war in Ukraine are unsettling for most people in the United States, but they generate fear and anxiety for Ukrainian Americans who are terrorized watching a Russian attack in their homeland where so many...