Whether they're adapted, adopted or ignored, the Common Core State Standards have made headlines across the country. How do they affect Catholic schools?

  

  

Earlier this year, it looked like the passage of immigration legislation was inevitable. Now, however, Congress is again wrangling over security on the border and a path to citizenship.

  

  

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is being debated endlessly -- but are we talking about it for the right reasons?

  

  

After James Fulton Engstrom was born blue and lifeless, his mother, Bonnie, prayed to Archbishop Fulton Sheen for a miracle. Three years later, James is healthy, and Archbishop Sheen is one step closer to sainthood.

  

  

As Russia completes its annexation of the Crimean peninsula and international leaders scramble to respond, tensions flare in Ukraine.

  

  

What started as a Lenten duty for the author of a new book led to a year of giving away possessions.

  

  

Upon his death, 92-year-old bachelor Bud Skalla left his considerable life's savings to 13 parishes in southwest Iowa.

  

  

  

-- John Boehner, R-Ohio and Speaker of the House, on inviting Pope Francis to address a joint session of Congress.

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