PISCO, Peru – When Carlos Cortez arrived in Pisco days after the city was struck by a magnitude 8 earthquake, he was particularly struck by the children in one of the tent cities set up for people who had been left homeless.Read More

NOGALES, Mexico – Victor Hernandez Martinez, a blacksmith with his own business near Seattle, was on his third day at the “Centro para Atenci›n a los Migrantes Deportados,” the Center to Help Deported Migrants, a few hundred yards inside the Mexican border from Arizona.Read More

Finally, at last the flow of oil – estimated at between 94 and 184 million gallons over three months – seems to be under some control in the Gulf of Mexico.Read More

ST. LOUIS – A new Catholic school for children with autism is opening Sept. 5 in the St. Louis Archdiocese.Read More

GUATEMALA CITY – Church leaders say 80 million pages of secret police records being reviewed by the government promise Guatemalans a rare chance to rewrite the history of their violent land. The moldy records were found by accident in 2005 in an abandoned section of a police compound in Guatemala City. Some of the records...Read More

Emily Kerstetter, a rising junior at Mount de Sales Academy, faces an uphill struggle as she recovers from injuries sustained in a July 11 bombing in Uganda.Read More

As their shuttle made its way from one historic site of their order to another, not even a rare summer downpour could dampen the spirits of the Oblate Sisters of Providence.Read More

“This guy may have saved my life,” my good friend Lt. Col. Robert Dalton said to me as he sat down in my kitchen and placed a book in front of me recently. “What guy?” I asked. “That guy,” replied Bob, a retired member of the United States Marine Corps and Davidsonville resident, as he...Read More