This public request highlights the emotional and financial challenges the Slaton family is facing as they rally around this difficult time.

O Jesus, our great High Priest, hear my humble prayers on behalf of your priests. Give them a deep faith, a bright and firm hope and a burning love which will ever increase in the course of their ...

Associated Press reporters contributing to this report include Becky Bohrer in Juneau, Alaska; Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina; Susan Haigh in Hartford, Connecticut; Leah Willingham in ...

and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Women represent half of the U.S. population but it's still rare for them to have leading roles in setting taxes or budgets in some states.