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March 31, 2014

Vol. 210 / No. 11

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Philosopher's Notebook
John J. Conley, S.J.March 18, 2014

The extension of euthanasia to children is not the last frontier in the euthanasia campaign.

Praying to end gang violence
Signs Of the Times

After 16 homicides in San Mateo County, Calif., last year, grieving mothers and the members of St. Francis of Assisi in East Palo Alto, walked their neighborhood on March 8, praying the Stations of the Cross for an end to gang violence. • More than 35,000 people have signed an Internet petition

Woman receives ashes from street chaplain on Ash Wednesday in Tennessee. (CNS photo/Kathleen Barry, UMNS)
Signs Of the Times

A growing interest in the tradition of Lent is giving Protestants something more in common with Catholics. Though slightly different in practice, some call this a step toward convergence in the global church. Christopher Ruddy, an associate professor at The Catholic University of America who is an e

FRANCIS EFFECTIVE. Has the pope helped make a vocation promoter’s job easier?
Signs Of the Times
Kevin ClarkeMarch 18, 2014

As the first anniversary of the election of Pope Francis approached in mid-March, the Pew Research Religion and Public Life Project noted the pope’s overwhelming popularity but reported it could not tease out a discernible “Francis effect” in the behavior of American Catholics. Pew

Members of Vienna's Ukrainian community protest outside St. Stephen's Cathedral. (CNS photo/Leonhard Foeger, Reuters)
Signs Of the Times

A Ukrainian Catholic priest in Crimea said church members are alarmed and frightened by the Russian military occupation and fear their communities might be outlawed again if Russian rule becomes permanent. The Rev. Mykhailo Milchakovskyi, a pastor in Kerch, Ukraine, described the atmosphere as tense

Priest helps a Muslim man climb down from an open truck in Central Africa Republic. (CNS photo/Siegfried Modola, Reuters)
Signs Of the Times

Muslims are being “cleansed” from the western part of the Central African Republic, and thousands of civilians risk being killed “right before our eyes,” the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, António Guterres, told the U.N. Security Council on March 6. U.N. Emer

WAR CRIME. A boy of Aleppo weeps amid the rubble of a building bombed by Syrian government forces on March 6.
Signs Of the Times

As the devastating conflict in Syria began its fourth year on March 15, the Catholic bishops of Syria called for a cease-fire and for combatants to return to negotiations in Geneva to end the suffering in the war-torn country. The bishops encouraged the faithful during Lent, to “fast and show