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Perfect game driven by pitcher’s mantra: ‘Three up, three down’

Holy Ghost Prep senior Tim Brennan kept it simple, and simply dominated hitters en route to 12 strikeouts and perfection. Learn what it takes to accomplish baseball's rarest feat.

Stop to pray during your stay in Philadelphia

The thousands of people -- make that millions -- visiting Philadelphia this September for the World Meeting of Families and events with Pope Francis will find Catholic shrines welcome places to pause for prayer.

Parish hosts St. Faustina play

The live production "Faustina: Messenger of Divine Mercy" will be presented Saturday, May 16 at Nativity of Our Lord Church in Warminster.

Event explores religious freedom and Catholic education

Regina Coeli Academy invites all to attend the "Stand Up for the Children" event May 13, featuring a talk by the head of the Cardinal Newman Society.

Today’s teaching on the family

See the daily excerpt from the preparatory catechesis for the 2015 World Meeting of Families, “Love is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive.”

Bishop in Nepal: Time is running out for victims of earthquake

"The biggest challenge now is the time factor. All of us have to rush to reach out to the victims. It's already too late," Bishop Simick told Catholic News Service April 30 after a five-hour trip to some of the worst-affected areas of Nepal's capital.

Local woman to attend Vatican seminar for coaches

Lee DelleMonache of Neumann University will participate at a Rome conference next week to discuss how coaches are important to the formation of athletes.

Canonization doesn’t mean Blessed Serra was perfect, experts say

Although he is a historian, not a theologian, Robert Senkewicz said: "My sense is that people are not canonized because they are perfect -- otherwise, presumably, St. Peter would never have been canonized.

Poor, marginalized to get VIP seating at Vatican charity concert

For an upcoming Vatican charity concert, Rome's immigrants, poor, elderly and marginalized will be getting front-row VIP treatment, while benefactors will be seated in the back.

Being Christian is service, not ‘makeup’ for a pretty soul, pope says

"To be Christian is to do what Jesus did -- serve," he said in a homily April 30 during Mass in the chapel of his residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae.