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Girls basketball All-Catholic teams named

See our list of first team, second team and honorable mention standouts for the year, including Neumann Goretti senior Alisha Keebe as Most Valuable Player.

Catholic boys, girls compete in PIAA basketball this weekend

Through two rounds of statewide competition, seven local Catholic high schools remain alive, and all of them play in the quarterfinals this weekend. See locations, times and match ups.

Challenging questions can be sign of faith, preacher tells pope

"It gives me hope to see how, among the people of God, questions continue to grow and no one is content with the same old answers," Father Ronchi told the retreatants.

After 50 years, rumors of God’s death still greatly exaggerated

It hit like the proverbial ton of bricks: the Time magazine cover story of April 8, 1966 -- Good Friday that year -- asking, "Is God Dead?" The tenor of the times made it a plausible question.

With drought, Ethiopian church feeds kids to keep them in school

Rural Catholic schools are becoming feeding centers during the worst drought in 50 years. Only 1 percent of Ethiopians are Catholic, yet the church is the country's second-largest provider of health and education services.

Auschwitz sets up tour dates just for World Youth Day pilgrims

The museum has set aside July 20-28 and Aug. 1-3 for participants in World Youth Day, which runs July 26-31 in Krakow, about one-and-a-half hours away.

Sister Regina Doyle, teacher and child care minister, dies at 71

The Port Richmond, Philadelphia, native served for 53 years with the Sisters of St. Joseph in Philadelphia and the Harrisburg Diocese.

New vicar sees the beauty of multicultural Catholic Church

Vincentian Father Gregory Semeniuk is the Philadelphia Archdiocese's new head of cultural ministries, a task he sees as blending sacraments and catechesis with social ministry programs.

Rise of AI challenges what it means to be human

The information revolution poses ethical questions that humans are just beginning to raise in concert with rapid developments in artificial intelligence, known as AI, in which machines can "think" on their own.

Denver archbishop leads 1,800 in procession around Planned Parenthood

On the morning of March 5, the procession went seven times around the abortion clinic, essentially surrounding the facility with silent prayer for over an hour.