Sports

In an era defined by spectacle and self-promotion, Mendoza’s draft-night choice stood in quiet contrast.

As the late player-manager Leo Durocher once said, “Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.”

Forever etched in Fighting Irish lore for leading Notre Dame to the 1988 National Championship, Lou Holtz leaves behind not just a decorated football resume but a legacy of shaping …

(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 …

“It is an open-air confessional for an airy pastoral ministry,” the priest told OSV News with humor.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Just as the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan Cortina were about to begin, Pope Leo XIV called on the Catholic Church to recognize sport as …

(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 …

Thanks to a 17th-century Italian priest, skis made their way from their origin in Scandinavia to Central Europe.

Pope Leo prays that “healthy competition may contribute to building bridges between cultures and peoples, promoting hospitality, solidarity, and peace.”

Skier Rebecca Dussault competed for the U.S. in the 2006 Olympic Games. Today she uses that experience to help youth find success in sport and connect to God.