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Noelle Baxter, leader among leaders, marches team to state crown

The Archbishop Wood senior didn't score a point in the PIAA Class 4A final, but her selfless orchestration helped her team win, earning the accolades of her coach and teammates.

West Catholic girls’ role players drive team to PIAA title

With their nationally ranked superstar contained, the Lady Burrs relied on the team approach and won their second consecutive state championship. Yet it was coach Beulah Osueke's final game.

Group seeks stepped up reunification of border families

Interfaith religious activists want the Biden administration to increase family reunification and fix the Trump administration's policy that separated some 5,500 immigrant children from their families.

A look at top-5 lists of facts from Catholic Church around the world

The Statistical Yearbook of the Church, published last month, offers 500 pages of charts and statistics on church life in every region of the world and nation -- China being the key exception.

Nations not working together seen as biggest failure of pandemic

If the lessons of this pandemic are not learned -- including the need for trust and honest transparency -- more people will needlessly die in future calamities, said the U.S. head of a Vatican COVID commission.

Even bullying has changed in pandemic, says NCEA presenter

Bullying in schools is nothing new, but an anti-bullying advocate told Catholic teachers there has been a "deeper edge to the meanness and nastiness" this year online.

‘Profound evil’ of abuse must be eradicated, Pope Francis tells symposium

The pope opened a three-day international meeting online with religious leaders, scholars, experts and survivors to prevent and heal from child sexual abuse.

London cardinal leads Catholics in mourning death of Prince Philip

Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster led Catholics of England and Wales in mourning the death of Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. The prince died April 9 at age 99.

All-Catholic Concert Band performing online April 10

The 74 students representing archdiocesan and private Catholic high schools will perform in a program beginning at 6:30 p.m. from Cardinal O'Hara High School.

Bucks County parish rises at dawn to celebrate Easter

More than 300 faithful gathered for a sunrise Mass at Nativity of Our Lord Parish in Warminster, an outdoor liturgy at which several finally received holy Communion after a year of COVID restrictions.