VATICAN CITY-- Pope Leo XIV and Israeli President Isaac Herzog spoke by telephone Dec. 17, just days after a terrorist attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Australia led to the deaths of 15 people.
The Israeli president initiated the call...
WILMINGTON – St. Elizabeth got close to William Penn a few times in the second half, but the Colonials pulled away with a late run in a 52-40 win over the Vikings in boys basketball on Dec. 16 at...
WASHINGTON -- Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, acknowledged "the struggle" that is Haiti's "reality," but he assured an estimated 5,000 Haitian Catholics gathered in Washington that Mary "walks with us in our struggles" as a...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Ramón Bejarano, currently auxiliary bishop of San Diego and titular bishop of Carpi, as Bishop of Monterey, Calif.
The appointment was announced by the Vatican on Dec. 17.
Born in Laredo, Texas,...
WASHINGTON -- Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, expressed the Catholic Church’s solidarity with the Jewish community in the wake of a Dec. 14 terror attack by two gunmen that...
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump, the State Department, and members of Congress expressed concern after Hong Kong's prominent Catholic media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai was convicted of national security offenses under the city's controversial national security law.
"I...
CLAYMONT – Daniel Hickey, a 1989 graduate of Archmere Academy, has been appointed the next headmaster of his alma mater, effective July 1, 2026. He will succeed Michael Marinelli, who will retire at the end of the academic year.
According...
The basketball teams at Saints Peter and Paul High School in Easton, Md., recently acted as international diplomats.
The Sabres welcomed their counterparts from St. Luke's Grammar School in Sydney, Australia, for a pair of exhibition games and some fellowship.
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Fifty French Catholics killed under German Nazism were beatified Dec. 13, 2025, during a Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris -- an event that recognized their witness of faith during World War II.
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg presided...
WASHINGTON -- The Little Sisters of the Poor appealed an August ruling from a federal district court that struck down a religious conscience rule, their legal representatives said Dec. 15.
The rule, implemented by the first Trump administration, exempted employers...