L’Osservatore Romano hailed the new U.S.-Russia disarmament treaty on April 7 as a “significant and courageous step toward international security”
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C.R.S. Seeks Shelter From Storms For Homeless in Haiti
Drenching rains already are turning tent camps outside Port-au-Prince into muddy quagmires.
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Pakistan: Light Over Darkness
Holy Week in Pakistan this year was set against a backdrop of suicide bombings that have killed Catholic workers.
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Archbishop Asks Accountability of Colleagues
“Without accountability for the past there will be no healing and no trust for the future,” Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said.
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U.S. Updates Reporting to Include Itself
Vulnerable populations affected by wars and internal conflicts were among the major concerns highlighted in the report.
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Nuclear Strategy Deters Disarmament
The Vatican nuncio to the United Nations said that cold war conditions that encouraged the church’s “limited toleration of nuclear deterrence” no longer exist.
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Letters
Worthy of Recognition Re “Historian’s Progress” (Current Comment, 3/29): I am a long-time reader and admirer of Tony Judt’s work. How wonderful of America to recognize his most recent work in The New York Review of Books. I do not know which is more worthwhile, his essay &ldq
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Latinos More Secular, Not Protestant
A study reports that Latinos who have left the church since 1990 have shifted toward secularism as they become more Americanized.
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Haitian N.G.O.s Seek Reconstruction Role
More than 26 groups say their calls for a new model of development in Haiti are being ignored.
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More than 200,000 people gathered for the March for America in Washington, D.C., in support of comprehensive immigration reform.