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Signs Of the Times
Reaching Across Generational Divides
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

Demographic data show the U.S. church is younger and more ethnically diverse, though increasingly Latino.

Signs Of the Times
Attacks on Christians
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Attacks on Christians in Africa, the Middle East and Asia more than tripled between 2003 and 2010

Books
Faith Enters the Public Square
Dennis O'Brien
Charles Taylor on the vexed issue of church and state in contemporary politics.
Television
'Glee' Grown Up: NBC's 'Smash'
Terrance Klein

NBC's 'Smash' asks what it takes—in the lives of those who do it—to produce a Broadway musical.

Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Maurice Timothy Reidy
Is Rick Santorum right about John F. Kennedy?
Columns
Time to Cool Down
Thomas J. Massaro
We must trade the culture warrior agenda for one of diplomacy.
Letters
Letters
First Amendment No Detail Even if the editors of America have no problem (“Policy, Not Liberty, 3/5) with paying for abortion-inducing drugs with funds donated or paid by the faithful, they should jealously guard the rights endowed by our creator and guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The Fi
Signs Of the Times
Mandate Standoff?
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An invitation from the White House to “work out the wrinkles” regarding the health care mandate failed to reach an agreement.

Signs Of the Times
News Briefs
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On March 5 St. Francis Xavier Church in Henryville, Ind., became the main aid center for local victims of a devastating chain of tornadoes.

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The Editors
Government's Task; Women at Work; Televangelism
Climate For Change: What the church can do about global warming
Elizabeth Groppe
What the church can do about global warming
The Word
Darkness and Faith
Peter Feldmeier
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord (B), April 1, 2012
Signs Of the Times
Caritas Lebanon Shelters Families Fleeing Violence
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

According to the president of Caritas Lebanon, families escaping Syria "are coming out in the cold with nothing but the clothes on their backs.”

Signs Of the Times
U.S. Budget Priorities
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

In a letter to Congress, Bishop Stephen Blaire and Bishop Richard Pates supported moves to strengthen programs that help the poor and vulnerable at home and abroad.

Books
Brothers' Keepers
Richard A. Blake
In search of the real Thornton Wilder
New Media
Digital Offerings: Praying in the Internet age
Elizabeth Elliott

Every day on Facebook and Twitter, people ask for prayers for their loved ones. Others spread the message through status updates and Twitter feeds.

Editorials
Democracy and Stability
The Editors
Stability does not have to be the enemy of democracy. It can sometimes be its friend.
Engaging the Spirituals: The secular challenge to the New Evangelization
Drew Christiansen
The secular challenge to the New Evangelization
In All Things
US Bishops call for fairer immigration laws
Michael J. O’Loughlin
As Pope Benedict continues his pastoral visit to Mexico bishops in the US are renewing their call for Congress to take charge on immigration reform in light of the severe and inhumane laws that are being passed at the state and local level Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York and Archbishop Jose Gom
In All Things
Coptics: A Child Shall Lead Them
Kevin Clarke
As Pope Shenouda III the leader of Egypt s Coptic Church who passed away on Saturday is laid to rest speculation has begun on his successor Whoever that person may be we can say with some authority that he will certainly be facing historic challenges for Egypt s Coptics One other thing we can s