Faith and Sports

Mike Ditka, the Catholic Hall of Fame football player and fiery coach who led the Chicago Bears to their only Super Bowl championship, died at age 86.

In his Sept. 9 message, Pope Leo said he was “pleased” to receive the team chair’s “kind letter” and “most grateful for this thoughtful gesture.”

“The goal is not to be ‘Spurs Nuns,'” but to be “consecrated women religious dedicated to helping the young and the poor,” Sister Bernadette said.

(OSV News) — As the Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes meet in the Stanley Cup Final, two Catholic bishops are taking part in a friendly wager featuring regional foods tied …

Throughout the 2026 Winter Games Olympics in Milan Cortina, Team USA kept Gaudreau’s memory at the forefront, displaying his No. 13 jersey in the locker room.

(OSV News) — In February 1905, nine years after the first modern Olympic games were held in Athens, their founder Pierre de Coubertin met at the Vatican with a big sports …

(OSV News) — Among the best athletes in the world preparing in early February to push the limits of the physically possible and vie for the glory of an Olympic …