A valuable gem can be found at St. Maria Goretti High School in Hagerstown.Read More

Happy New Year, dear readers!Read More

A new year reminds us of both birth and death. It’s not always easy to let go of the old.Read More

VATICAN CITY – If farmers in Africa had greater access to fertile, arable land safe from armed conflict and pollutants, they would not need genetically modified crops to produce food, said the head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.Read More

WASHINGTON – Five U.S. cardinals and more than two dozen other U.S. bishops could retire because of age this year.Read More

VATICAN CITY – A presumed miracle needed for the beatification of the late Pope John Paul II reportedly has reached the final stages of approval.Read More

I sympathize with Susan Crane’s frustration (CR, Dec. 2 and 16) with the U.S. Navy Nuclear weapons storage depot in Bangor, Wash. Nuclear weapons of any kind destroy entire cities, devastate the civilian population and destroy the infrastructure of a locality. All countries should welcome President Obama’s call for a test ban halt to the...Read More

WESTMINSTER – As the Supreme Court considers a high-profile case involving the Westboro Baptist Church, much media attention has focused on what the Kansas church members did outside St. John parish during Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder's 2006 funeral.Read More