We are simply beyond capacity at this point, said a Catholic Charities worker in St. Louis, Mo.

Pope Benedict XVI called for all nations to end the production, stockpiling and use of land mines and cluster bombs.

"This is a step in the right direction," said Father Jose Espino, a priest of the Miami Archdiocese and a Cuban native.

After the Supreme Court in 1976 allowed states to reinstate the death penalty, 37 states had laws on the books permitting capital punishment.

The church teaches that "every life has value and dignity. That is a given," said Andy Rivas, executive director of the Texas Catholic Conference during a Feb. 24 program at the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington. Rivas helped devise a program of events in Texas in November that sought

What would happen in a Roe v. Wade reversal is far from certain, Balch added. "Theres a lot of scholarly writing in the event of what would happen," she said, like how to enforce a law outlawing abortion that is still on the books but that has been dormant for close to four decades. "Even if there a

A Vatican spokesman dismissed reports that the Holy See has rejected several candidates because of their support for legal abortion.

Airing Tuesday night on PBS: The Released, the grim story of life after prison in Ohio.

I sat riveted to my seat for two plus hours watching the prize-winning film by Matteo Garrone Gomorra At times I squirmed nervously viewing some violence or murders in the film The film which won the Grand Pris at Cannes in 2008 and the European film prize the same year inexplicably was overlo