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January 6-13, 2014

Vol. 210 / No. 1

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Of Other Things
Bill McGarveyDecember 23, 2013

It is important to remember that the sheep, ultimately, don’t exist for the sake of the shepherd.

Archbishop Louis Sako of Baghdad, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, spoke Dec. 14 in Rome about the status of Christians in the Middle East. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Signs Of the Times

Fighting in the Middle East creates openings for extremist and threatens tolerance of Christians.

BUDGET PRIORITIES: Getting down to business at the Baltimore Catholic Charities Head Start program in Edgewood, Md., in June.
Signs Of the Times

The bishops and others advocated for a “circle of protection” around poverty programs.

Palestinian civil defense volunteers paddle boat to evacuate people after flooding in Gaza Strip. (CNS photo/Mohammed Salem, Reuters)
Signs Of the Times

On Dec. 13 a federal judge granted Catholic organizations in the Archdiocese of New York and the neighboring Diocese of Rockville Centre a permanent injunction against the federal contraceptive mandate in the health care law. • In an escalating standoff, Catholic clergymen were taken away for q

People hold a banner and signs on the steps of the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta during a vigil for death-row inmate Troy Davis before his Sept. 21 execution. (CNS photo/Michael Alexander, Georgia Bulletin)
Signs Of the Times

In 2013 the use of the death penalty continued its steady decline by almost every measure, according to a report released in December by the Death Penalty Information Center. Executions in the United States dropped by about 10 percent from 2012, to 39 from 43, marking only the second time in the pas

SNOWFLAKES: A winter scene over a memorial for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., on the first anniversary of the massacre there.
Signs Of the Times

Grass-roots groups have turned their efforts to state legislatures.

Boy displaced by conflict peers through fence in contested Sudanese border region. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)
Signs Of the Times

As fighting continued in Juba, the capital city of South Sudan, and spread to other Sudanese cities, Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian leaders urged reconciliation and offered to serve as mediators in the conflict. Thousands have fled to the presumed safety of U.N. compounds after street fighting