Whether she’s running up and down a soccer field in the fall, or darting around a lacrosse field in the spring, Carly Ross calls the playing field her second home.Read More

“Is marriage eroding?” (CR, April 16) was disturbing. People need to wake up. Marriage as a sacrament and worthy vocation has been eroding for so long that its erosion is not a question, it is a fact.Read More

ASUNCION, Paraguay – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, the former bishop who was elected in 2008, admitted April 13 that he had fathered a child, now nearly two years old, who was born before Lugo was laicized.Read More

The Office of African American Catholic Ministries of the Archdiocese of Baltimore released the names of the recipients of the first Daniel Rudd Scholarship. The Daniel Rudd Scholarship Fund is administered by the office and board of African American Catholic Ministries. The scholarship named after the founder of the National Black Catholic Congress is open...Read More

TOKYO – The church bell tolled at 2:46 p.m., marking six months since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan.Read More

I was surprised and confused by the advertisement for the movie “Knowing” (CR, April 2). I was concerned that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called it “a meditation on faith and family unity.” I saw it and was horrified. I saw it as a science fiction movie that tries to depict a potentially mentally...Read More

DETROIT – It was an event he witnessed while “still in grammar school” that helped shape Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony’s concern for immigrants.Read More

NEW ORLEANS – The government of Qatar came to the rescue of Xavier University of Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, and now the oil-rich Middle Eastern country is determined to do something similar for earthquake-ravaged Haiti.Read More