PORTLAND, Ore. – Gary Ascher has a good life. Amiable and bright, he’s in a long-lasting marriage. His children are high-achieving. He holds down a steady job making patterns for cast metal machinery.Read More

ROME – Heightened security and military preparedness alone cannot prevent acts of terrorism, because terrorism is born of real grievances twisted by hatred, said Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers. Cardinal Martino spoke at the opening of an April 23-27 seminar the council was holding with Catholic airport chaplains...Read More

Patrick K. Clancy’s letter objecting to the term “Ranger Rosary” smacked of ignorance and ingratitude (CR, April 19). I suppose he would like to disarm St. Michael, excommunicated modern-day Joan of Arcs, and deny the final instruction Christ gave his disciples at the Last Supper – from now on sell your cloaks and buy swords...Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI’s personal secretary visited the woman responsible for knocking the pope down during a Christmas Eve Mass.Read More

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Just two years after he blessed Our Lady of Guadalupe Church as a mission of St. Edward Parish, Nashville Bishop David R. Choby dedicated it as the first independent Hispanic parish in Tennessee.Read More

LONDON – The head of Great Britain’s military diocese has welcomed the Iranian government’s decision to release 15 captured British sailors and marines. Bishop Thomas Burns of the Bishopric of the Forces said the decision by the Iranian government to free the 14 men and one woman was “not just as the result of diplomacy,...Read More

Terrorists attacked the United States the first day Dr. B. Curtis Turner spent with his students as the new principal of The Seton Keough High School in Baltimore in 2001. A week later, two of his students were involved in a serious car accident. A week after that, one of those students died from her...Read More

MEXICO CITY – Mexico City Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera criticized the city’s legalization of gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples.Read More