DETROIT – Our Lady of La Salette Catholic School in the Detroit suburb of Berkley is making a guarantee: First-graders will be reading at a second-grade level by the end of the year. If not, parents can ask for a full tuition refund.Read More

NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenya’s bishops, saying the country’s future was at stake, have advised citizens to vote for candidates with a track record of honesty in the December general elections. They also expressed concern that corruption was still a major issue in the government of President Mwai Kibaki, who plans to seek re-election.Read More

WASHINGTON – It could be months before a New Mexico District Court judge rules on the request of an Albuquerque television station to obtain photos of injured Gallup Bishop Donald E. Pelotte taken by police investigating the possibility that he was assaulted, according to the diocesan attorney.Read More

WASHINGTON – Syndicated columnist Robert Novak has made a living writing articles containing information from his carefully cultivated sources, and when he first became interested in Catholicism, it was, coincidentally, a former source who aided him in his conversion. His story about a source turned priest who baptized him, as well as many other stories...Read More