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Europe's Broken Vision

March 30, 2015

Vol. 212 / No. 11

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Philosopher's Notebook
John J. Conley, S.J.March 18, 2015

Suspicious of all political utopias, Ionesco rejected the efforts at a partisan recuperation of the drama.

Wester and Walsh
Signs Of the Times

Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Communications, surprised America’s church correspondent Mary Ann Walsh, R.S.M., with the prestigious St. Francis de Sales Award from the Catholic Press Association in Albany on March 12. • On March

JUBILEE! Pope Francis announces a Holy Year of Mercy during a Lenten penance service in St. Peter’s Basilica on March 13.
Signs Of the Times
Gerard O’ConnellMarch 18, 2015

In a surprising and far-reaching decision, Pope Francis announced an extraordinary holy year, a Jubilee of Mercy, that will extend from Dec. 8, 2015, to Nov. 20, 2016, and will involve the Catholic Church throughout the world. He broke the news during a penitential celebration in St. Peter’s B

Debris seen inside damaged church in Syria.
Signs Of the Times

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has been unable to confirm the number of its members abducted in Syria, nor where they are being held. The society announced on its website on March 4 that “several colleagues,” along with “women and children,” were kidnapped in the province

Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador is seen in undated photo working in improvised radio studio.
Signs Of the Times

The beatification of El Salvador’s martyred Archbishop Óscar Romero will take place during a ceremony in El Salvador on May 23, the day before Pentecost Sunday. The date was announced on March 11 by Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, postulator of Romero’s cause for sainthood, in El Salvador.

Demonstrators confront police during protests in Venezuela.
Signs Of the Times
Tim PadgettMarch 18, 2015

Things could not be worse in Venezuela. No, actually, they could be—and probably will be.Despite its prodigious oil wealth, Venezuela is heading over a financial cliff, and it is heading there faster thanks to the plunging price of crude oil. The socialist revolution founded by the late Hugo C

Signs Of the Times

A study released by the Brookings Institution in Washington finds that single women whose income is 400 percent of the federal poverty line or higher are nearly four times as likely to opt for an abortion when faced with an unplanned pregnancy. The findings contradict earlier statements by the Guttm