Signs Of the Times

“The situation we are in at the moment is terrible. What tomorrow will bring?”

August 1 is the first possible date when health plans could be required to cover eight new preventive services for women under the Affordable Care Act.

Participants in sex-selective abortions should be charged with murder, said the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India Office for Women.

Fighting in Aleppo, Syria, has not spared the residences of the local Melkite and Maronite Catholic archbishops.

According to one report, women there are almost 50 percent more likely than men to contract the disease.

Florida’s seven-diocese network of church-affiliated emergency responders prepares for Isaac’s landfall.

Congress should extend “tax credits that help low-income families live in dignity,” said Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, Calif.

One of Peru’s top Catholic universities will continue to call itself Catholic and pontifical, despite a Vatican decree aiming to strip the titles.

Oswaldo Payá, a prominent Cuban dissident, died in a car crash on July 22 in an incident that his family claims was “not an accident.”

The fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria is weeks away, but could be accelerated with more support from the Obama administration.