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La Salle dispenses with suspense in 10-0 blow-out title win
The expected pitcher’s duel involving the Catholic League’s top two teams instead turned into a rout after 13 batters came to the plate in a seven-run first for the Explorers, who topped Archbishop Carroll for the league championship.
Historically good pitching, defense key Archbishop Ryan’s title win
Ryan's freshman pitcher Dana Bell tossed a three-hit, two-walk, 11-strikeout beauty in the 1-0 defeat of Lansdale Catholic May 25 for the Catholic League softball championship. In three playoff games she gave up no earned runs and struck out 26.
As pope meets more survivors, abuse allegations continue in Chile
While Pope Francis was continuing his efforts to heal a church wounded by the scourge of sexual abuse, bishops in Chile face an uphill battle back at home to regain the trust they have lost.
Meet the new deacons to be ordained June 9 for Philadelphia
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput will ordain 16 men to the permanent diaconate for the Philadelphia Archdiocese. See bios on all the men who prepare to take on greater roles of service as ordained clergy in the church.
Sports on Sundays OK, except when used to skip Mass, says Vatican
A new Vatican document cautions against the dangers of highly competitive children's sports, political and economic pressures on athletes to win '"at all costs" and the unsportsmanlike or violent behavior of fans.
As school winds down, kids learn to eat their veggies, and like them
Some 30,000 children each day in the region are eating more salads and learning healthy eating habits, thanks to free meals provided by archdiocesan Nutritional Development Services, with federal and state support.
Minnesota archdiocese’s reboot plan offers $210 million to survivors
A reorganization plan for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has resolved its three-year bankruptcy negotiation with the largest settlement ever reached in a such a case related to clergy sex abuse.
Parish prays with school shooting survivors, mourners at memorial vigil
At least 300 parishioners, friends, family, visitors and survivors of the shooting gathered in the church to remember those who died May 18, including eight high school students, aged 14 to 17, and two beloved Santa Fe school teachers.
Supreme Court still has big decisions to deliver before term ends
As the Supreme Court prepares to wrap up its current term by the end of June, Catholic Church leaders are among those paying attention to how the court will rule on a handful of the nearly 30 decisions it has left to announce.
At Bridgeport parish, former Protestants discuss Catholic beliefs about Mary
Parishioners at St. John the Baptist, established through a Catholic rite for former Anglicans, learned how Marian devotion can enhance faith. The May 23 talk was sponsored by a ministry of the Legion of Mary.