Intra-Catholic football rivalries are some of the best rivalries in high school sports. These contests are often long-standing traditions, made up of family culture, neighborhood and parish loyalties, and very talented student athletes. In some ways, it all seems to have the
Yogi Berra, Gil Hodges, Derek Jeter, Babe Ruth, Whitey Ford and Connie Mack were among the first-place winners Catholic voters chose in online balloting for an all-time Catholic baseball all-star team.
Nearly 2,000 Catholic baseball fans across the country cast their votes in
This week, legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully passed away at age 94. As Southern California native Lisa Hendey writes, for decades, Scully’s voice was the soundtrack of her summers. She writes: “This week in Los Angeles and around the globe, baseball fans
In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, director of the Conscience Project, examines the importance of the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday in which it ruled that a public school assistant football coach was wrongfully fired for praying after
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Monday that a high school football coach who lost his job because he knelt on the field following games to say a silent prayer had a constitutional right to pray as he did under the First
Fathers Casey Cole and Roberto "Tito" Serrano, both Franciscan friars, met in their second year of formation and bonded over their love of baseball and their Franciscan vocations.
As kids, they both dreamed of visiting Major League Baseball stadiums around the country. Now
The majority of Supreme Court justices seemed to side with a former high school football coach April 25 who said his postgame prayers on the field -- that cost him his job -- amounted to private speech and not the public school's
With Major League Baseball’s spring training now underway after a monthslong labor strife has finally been resolved, we can now say that baseball is back. Or is it? Writer Charles Camosy explores the sport’s lockout and a new rule change through the
When Will Thomas was in his sophomore and junior years of college at the University of Pennsylvania, he decided that he was a woman, began hormone replacement therapy and changed his name to Lia. This month, at age 22, Thomas is scheduled
Kamila Valieva’s free skate and its aftermath at the Beijing Olympics were five of the most difficult minutes of an Olympic Games to watch in recent memory, writes the members of the Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board. Valieva, who went into the