SAN ANTONIO – A top journalist who is a veteran of covering violent conflict in Mexico and Central America has a sober warning for anybody who smokes marijuana: If it comes from south of the border, “it’s heavy with the blood of innocent people.”Read More

VATICAN CITY – The church’s 24 new cardinals will join a unique institution that has grown dramatically in membership and has gradually been internationalized in recent decades.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church may be the only organization that can counter the corporate greed fueling the over-prescribing of harmful psychiatric drugs to children and young people, said Dr. Barry Duncan, a clinical psychologist and director of the Heart and Soul of Change Project.Read More

When Adrian Amos and his classmates entered Calvert Hall three years ago, its football program was near the bottom of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A ConferenceRead More

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia – A Catholic seminary used as a shelter for people escaping Mount Merapi volcanic eruptions hosted hundreds of Muslim victims at a celebration of the Islamic feast of Eid al-Adha.Read More

I share the dismay of my letter-writer Jim Devereaux (CR, Nov. 4), as to why Maryland’s St. Thomas More Society would give Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia its 2010 Man for All Seasons Award.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI and other church leaders said it was the moral responsibility of nations to guarantee access to health care for all of their citizens, regardless of social and economic status or their ability to pay.Read More

Ken McVeary couldn’t stop laughing.Read More