In its third year, the De Sales Invitational basketball tournament brought together 150 seminarians for three days in late February.

The Catholic leadership of both Philadelphia and Kansas City, Mo., went the whole nine yards with their Super Bowl wager this year — but Catholic Charities has scored the most.

Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Brad Hill, one of the people behind the “He Gets Us” ad campaign about what it means to introduce Jesus to people who may not know that the Lord stands with them in good and bad times.

The training, discipline and motivation needed even by amateur athletes are also tools for spiritual growth, Pope Francis said.

The Feb. 12 Super Bowl, which kicks off at 6:30 p.m., “sadly serves as a danger zone for sex trafficking, labor trafficking and domestic violence,” said the executive director of the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, based in the Washington suburb of Silver Spring.

The Chiefs will battle the Philadelphia Eagles Feb. 12 with kick off at 6:30 p.m. at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. the team’s third appearance in four seasons at the Big Game, which they won in 2019 after routing the San Francisco 49ers.

Whether the sisters hail from Colorado, Montana, Wyoming or the Midwest, their loyalties tend to run Chiefs’ red — especially leading up to Super Bowl Sunday.

On Feb. 12 at 6:30 p.m., the Eagles will take on the Kansas City Chiefs at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, in their first return to the Big Game since their 2018 victory over the New England Patriots.

Mercy gym renovations followed the installation of Mary Anne Heckwolf ’66 Field, the first field at a Baltimore-­area girls’ school with lighting for nighttime games and a digital scoreboard.

Divine intervention may be the only explanation for how two college teammates graduated, ventured off on different career paths miles apart and then, 40 years later, ended up on the same journey in Miami, both wearing habits.