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Religious liberty advocates are hailing a Monday, June 27, Supreme Court decision that a high school football coach had a constitutional right to pray at the 50-yard line after his team’s games as a landmark ruling for religious exercise in public life.

The National Synodal Cup 2022-23 will be in July and October to coincide with the 15th National Congress of Vietnamese bishops, which is organizing the event. The tournament is designed to foster fraternity among local clergy before the 2023 assembly of the Synod of Bishops on synodality.

Basically speaking, there are two great religious faiths in Italy, each surrounded by an imposing body of dogma, law, liturgy, and deep personal devotion: Catholicism and calcio, the Italian word for soccer.

The Vatican's Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life is set to host an International Summit on Sport, scheduled for 29-30 September, as a way to urge the sector to guarantee the right to enjoy sport that is cohesive, accessible and tailored to each person.

Although most of the soccer world’s eyes were probably on the Manchester City-Real Madrid Champions League semifinal on Tuesday night, another match the same day was closer to the heart of Pope Francis.

St. Peter gained the upper hand on St. Patrick's Day when the underdog team of the small Jesuit school, Saint Peter's University of Jersey City, New Jersey, upset the mighty University of Kentucky in the first round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.

The U.S. bishops’ conference had a friend-of-the-court brief filed on its behalf on March 2 in support of a former high school football coach who sued a school district after he lost his job in 2015 for refusing to stop kneeling and praying on the fifty-yard line after games.

The Los Angeles Rams may have won Super Bowl LVI over the Cincinnati Bengals, but students in Catholic schools in both archdioceses are winners as well.

Under the bright lights and falling confetti, surrounded by his team, their families and thousands of fans in SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, Sean McVay raised high the Vince Lombardi Super Bowl championship trophy Feb. 13.

Parishioners in the rural Irish parish of LPGA golf champion Leona Maguire have expressed pride at the 27-year-old's historic achievement: the first Irish golfer to win the tournament.

With anticipation building for the Super Bowl, Cincinnati Bengals fans are preparing to cheer and pray for their team at the big game Feb. 13 against the Los Angeles Rams.

As fans prepare to watch the Rams take on the Cincinnati Bengals in the Super Bowl at Los Angeles' SoFi Stadium Feb. 13, Catholic viewers may not realize how much their fellow believers have been involved in the history and success of American football.

Years before Stan Verrett was delivering daily sports news and highlights, the longtime ESPN anchor roamed the halls of the predominantly Black St. Augustine High School in New Orleans, Louisiana, as a student from 1979-1984.

Pope Francis greets participants in the imminent Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and says he is happy its new motto encourages a culture of fraternity.