I was surprised by Richard W. Montalto’s letter (CR, Aug. 6). The writer was concerned that reform would change health care to a “socialistic medical delivery system,” yet we have socialized medicine now, if by the phrase we mean federal government or taxpayer-financed care.Read More

SAN DIEGO – Migrant camps have existed in the Carmel Valley area of north San Diego County longer than most of the area’s housing, certainly longer than the million-dollar homes that now carpet the valley east of Del Mar. Home to the men and women who work in the vegetable and flower fields, the makeshift...Read More

When the Catholic Family Network began hosting its Catholic Family Expo 17 years ago, the Woodstock group had a small following of mostly home-school advocates looking to broaden their Catholic horizons. Fast forward to 2007 and the organization is planning to host more than 2,000 Catholics at its four-day expo at the Baltimore Convention Center...Read More

Catholic high schools can’t take their Catholic identity for granted, according to Richard O’Hara, president of The John Carroll School in Bel Air.Read More

EMMITSBURG – Peering through a glass display case, 9-year-old Gloria Whitfield was impressed with an old letter that rested on a 19th-century wooden writing desk.Read More

GUANGZHOU, China – Local and foreign Catholics expressed hope that a newly renovated Gothic cathedral in southern China would boost evangelization. Local media coverage of the cathedral’s official reopening should make more people aware of the cathedral’s existence and boost evangelization, Guangzhou resident Han Weizhou told UCA News, an Asian church news agency. Mr. Han,...Read More

WASHINGTON – Congress should heed the warnings of a recent report on global warming, with priority given to how climate change will affect the poor, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Policy urged. In a Feb. 7 letter to congressional leaders, Bishop Thomas G. Wenski of Orlando, Fla., said the recently released...Read More

VATICAN CITY - For the first time in half a millennium, the doors of the Vatican Museums were open to the public at night.Read More