A Texas newspaper reported today that U.S. Supreme Court Senior Justice Antonin Scalia was discovered dead of apparent natural causes at a West Texas ranch. According to the San Antonio Express News, Scalia arrived at the ranch on Friday and attended a private party with about 40 people. When he did

Mexico’s richness is its young people, Pope Francis told the nation’s assembled political leadership at the National Palace in Mexico City today.

"The most common abuses that we are documenting and hearing about … are torture, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions.”

The surprise announcement from Rome of the upcoming meeting between Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and Pope Francis “shows definitively Francis’ vocation as a pontiff, a bridge-builder,” Kevin Ahern, an assistant professor of religious studies at Manhattan College said on Feb. 5.&ldquo

More Mexicans remain tied to their Catholic faith compared with people in many other Latin American countries.

Pope and Patriarch likely to focus on areas for collaboration and dialogue.

Aid in place needed to staunch refugee crisis.

True unity and true dialogue can only be found in common mission.

The indictments produced a wave of media coverage heavy with schadenfruede among supporters of Planned Parenthood.

In Flint, Mich., jobs have been scarce for years, but crime and foreclosures have been on the rise. Domestic violence and depression are household scourges, and a steady population decline has made the running of the city and even its long-term viability increasingly tenuous. As if these and many mo