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The Boy Scouts of America’s decided July 27 to allow openly gay troop leaders and employees to serve in their ranks at the national level.

The dog days of summer may inspire the urge to get away from it all. Wise moviegoers, however, will not seek their relief in “Vacation,” a dog of a comedy that happily rolls around in all manner of muck.

A new Gallup poll shows that the favorability rating for the pontiff among U.S. respondents is down.

Nearly 100 people rallied in support of the right to life outside a Baltimore Planned Parenthood.

All those misspent hours of youth, spending quarters on mindless video games, are finally put to use in “Pixels,” a manic comedy about an alien invasion of Earth by 3-D characters from the arcade.

Sister Marie Charles Grauer, a School Sister of Notre Dame who taught girls the finer points of grammar, composition and literature for more than three decades at the Institute of Notre Dame in Baltimore, died July 20 at Villa Assumpta in Baltimore.

Pope Francis was the first pilgrim to sign up for World Youth Day to be held in Poland, launching the opening of registration.

Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the number of active-duty chaplains has fallen from over 400 priests to 228.

Cardinal William W. Baum, the archbishop of Washington from 1973 to 1980, died July 23 at the age of 88.