GREENVILLE — St. Elizabeth’s boys basketball team fell behind by six points at the outset of the third quarter in the season opener on Dec. 3 against St. Georges, but the Vikings would score nine of the next 11...
NEW YORK -- Catholic Extension named New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan as the recipient of its seventh annual Spirit of Francis Award for his solidarity with the Catholic Church in Cuba and his "advocacy for the weak and...
WASHINGTON -- A few weeks before Honduras' Nov. 28 presidential election, two bishops from the U.S. quietly landed in the country's capital of Tegucigalpa with a mission Pope Francis has placed on the world's Catholic prelates: to listen.
In the...
My track record as a predictor of Supreme Court abortion decisions took a hit years ago when I wrote an editorial predicting that Planned Parenthood v. Casey would overturn Roe v. Wade. Thanks to Justice Anthony Kennedy, I was...
NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Pope Francis told migrants that, like them, God dreams of a world where everyone recognizes each other as brothers and sisters.
God "asks us not to be content with a divided world, divided Christian communities, but to...
Flashlight in hand, Bishop Richard F. Stika of Knoxville, Tenn., was walking through the fire-damaged administrative offices of Catholic Charities of East Tennessee, when he came across a small wooden crucifix hanging on a wall with a rosary draped...
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Members of the student orchestra of St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School in West Islip, N.Y., Bishop Robert J. Brennan’s alma mater, played holiday music outside the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in the Prospect Heights...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis named five new members to the Vatican Dicastery for Communication, including Archbishop Borys Gudziak, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
The Vatican announced the new appointments Dec. 2.
Archbishop Gudziak, 61, was born in...
NICOSIA, Cyprus -- The Catholic Church is a mosaic of different rites and cultures and must show the world the beauty of welcoming all people as brothers and sisters, Pope Francis told the Catholics of Cyprus.
Beginning his Dec. 2-4...
The fall sports season sponsored by Catholic Youth Ministry concluded recently with a series of championships. The following report was submitted by the CYM office.
Soccer
Junior varsity soccer held its championship in a tournament sponsored by Immaculate Heart of Mary...