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Key kicks, late TD seal close 19-15 state title for Archbishop Wood
Defense, offense and special teams all contributed to the Vikings' PIAA Class 5A state championship Dec. 6, the program’s third state title in three years and sixth in the past nine.
Pressed into service, a junior leads Prep to state football title
With star quarterback Kyle McCord sidelined with an injury, St. Joseph's Prep relied on backup QB Malik Cooper to run the offense and, with a stellar defense, win the PIAA Class 6A championship.
Detained by ICE, family longs to be home in South Philly for Christmas
A Catholic Indonesian couple have been in separate Pennsylvania prisons since July, away from their two daughters, while federal immigration procedures wend slowly and at great cost. Still, their faith remains unshaken.
Sainthood causes require full investigation, pope says
Before saints are proposed to Catholics for imitation and veneration, a scrupulous investigation is required, Pope Francis said, without mention of the freeze on the cause of U.S. Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
Celebrate Christmas with poor in mind, Ghanaian prelate says
At an ecumenical program in Ghana, Archbishop John Bonaventure Kwofie called for easing "the situation of the abandoned, the marginalized, the forgotten, the sick, the aged, the needy" at Christmas.
Priest, ex-spokesman for 9 Indian dioceses, arrested for fraud
A Catholic priest arrested Dec. 11 in central India will remain in custody after laypeople accused him and two accomplices of duping 377 people in a residential property scheme.
Fire destroys N.J. church; suspected arsonist arrested
James Mayers, a 26-year-old local resident, was arrested at Most Blessed Sacrament Church, in the Newark Archdiocese, where the fire had been set with a cigarette lighter and gasoline.
People’s hearts yearn for God, not possessions, pope says
The Christmas season is a time to reflect on what life is all about, Pope Francis told an international group of performers, whose songs help reawaken the question, "What is it that I am waiting for in my life?"
Fishtown Catholic school’s shutterbugs putting skills on exhibit
The STREAM curriculum of St. Laurentius Catholic School includes a 10-week digital photography course whose upper-grade students showed their work at an exhibit Dec. 3 in the Crane Arts Building.
Our Lady of Guadalupe calls us to change culture, attitudes
At a Dec. 11 vigil Mass in Philadelphia for the beloved Marian feast, more than 1,500 faithful gathered to honor Mary's 16th-century appearance Mexico. Today she "invites us to welcome the stranger," said Bishop Edward Deliman.