WASHINGTON – Facing a growing humanitarian crisis after the largest earthquake in Haiti in two centuries, Catholic aid agencies and world governments were boosting efforts to respond to the needs of hundreds of thousands of injured and homeless.Read More

LONDON – A proposed law to regulate religion in Kazakhstan could force the expulsion of Catholic missionaries and the closure of churches, a Catholic archbishop said.Read More

When we had alligator sausage for lunch, it was clear we were in a different part of the country. We are Blair Simms and Donald Singleton. As graduating seniors from Mount St. Joseph High School, we decided to “give back” as part of our senior project. We traveled to New Orleans with the goal of...Read More

A U.S. Jesuit brother who works as a Vatican astronomer says doomsday is not coming in 2012, as portrayed in a current movie or rumored in the Mayan long-count calendar of 5,125 years.Read More

McALLEN, Texas – Throughout his childhood, David Calvillo’s mother urged him to pray the rosary but he admits the recommendation went in one ear and out the other.Read More

WASHINGTON – More than 1,000 refugees from Iraq arrived in the United States in May, the most in recent months, bringing the fiscal-year total to 4,742 so far, the State Department reported June 3.Read More

I noticed that you devoted 18 column-inches to cover the death penalty in Maryland (CR/May 29) but buried Senator Kennedy’s support for abortion in the last three quarters of a column-inch of an article praising the senator. Assuming all life is equal, I compared the total number of executions in the United States since 1977...Read More

WASHINGTON – Whenever Robert Carlisle leaves his modest apartment on Cleveland’s near west side, he turns off the heat so he can save a little money on his gas bill for a pair of shoes or a bus pass. He does the same at night when he climbs into bed under an extra blanket.Read More