CARACAS, Venezuela – A package of constitutional reforms proposed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez that would have increased the president’s powers and established a “socialist economy” was defeated narrowly by voters.Read More

BOSTON - Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston has released the names of 159 of the 250 Boston archdiocesan priests or deacons accused of sexually abusing a minor, including 22 whose cases have not been resolved canonically.Read More

LONDON – The war in Iraq might have caused the end of Christianity in the country, said a Chaldean Catholic bishop.Read More

“Deaths reminder of terrible tragedy of war” (CR, Aug. 11), notwithstanding the huge loss of life and injuries to many brave American soldiers, omits a very important loss of life. We sometimes forget the huge number of innocent civilians caught up on both sides of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Children have a right to “stability, serenity and security,” Pope Benedict XVI said, urging that more be done in providing these essential conditions to young people trapped in refugee camps.Read More

MADRID – Pope Benedict XVI’s aides had seen enough. The pontiff was trying to lead a World Youth Day vigil Aug. 20 at Cuatro Vientos, a former air base, when a powerful thunderstorm swept into town.Read More

The annual Native American Day was the culminating activity to a unit that focused on American Indians at Trinity School, Ellicott City, Nov. 19. Clad in traditional Indian dress with tribal symbols painted on their faces, two kindergarten classes sang songs around a teepee on the school’s spacious campus and played tom-toms they handcrafted.Read More

Everyone of a certain age has recollections of Nov. 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.Read More