BALTIMORE – Cardinal William H. Keeler’s retirement as archbishop of Baltimore will be felt not only within the Catholic Church but in Jewish, Muslim, Orthodox and other Christian communities nationwide.Read More

Francisco “Paco” Lobo got up from a seat near Tio Pepe’s bar to walk back to his station in the Mount Vernon restaurant. The longtime maitre d’ was stopped by a customer who came through the doors just as it opened.Read More

The 2006-2007 kindergarten year started out anxiously, unexpectedly not for the students but for those parents with children beginning a new year taught by the woman who was pre-judged to have the look of someone who most likely would rule with an iron fist. There’s nothing like being proven wrong.Read More

ROCKVILLE – The sounds of joyful singing fill the first floor of the suburban Washington home of Irma and Celia Nissen.Read More

WASHINGTON – Dr. Anna Maria Izquierdo-Porrera knows firsthand that medical offices must be places on which patients can rely to receive quality health care when they need it and places to which they will want to return.Read More

With all the homicides in Baltimore, one has to question whether the media are contributors. The reporting of the Ravens/Steelers conflict and other sports coverage often includes terms of “killing” the other team, “annihilating,” “crushing.” It is a game when you boil it down, and of course spirited competition. Rooting for the home team is...Read More

In “Two anniversaries of political consequence,” (CR, June 21), George Weigel uses the attack by Israel of Egypt, Syria and Jordan in 1967 as a justification for preemptive war as a legitimate part of foreign policy.Read More

WASHINGTON - The Senate’s inability to overcome a threatened filibuster Dec. 18 scuttled passage of the DREAM Act, prompting immigrant advocates to pledge to push forward on immigration reform next year with a new Congress and fight for what one immigrant leader termed the “respect we deserve.”Read More