Signs Of the Times

Archbishop Pietro Sambi was a career diplomat who also served as ambassador to Israel and Palestine.

The bishop of Toledo, Ohio, has prohibited parishes and parochial schools from raising funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which conducts breast cancer research

On July 9, South Sudan officially broke free of the north and became the world’s newest independent state.

An investigation by a government panel suggests a continuing failure of the Irish church to implement its own child protection procedures.

The archdiocese has urged Catholics not to vote for political parties that promote liberalized abortion laws and same-sex marriage.

The bishops said that true definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman “cannot change, though we realize that our beliefs…will continue to be ridiculed.”

One 15-year-old had grown so accustomed to the war raging around him that he lost his fear of the ordnance scattered on the ground in his neighborhood.

A source from the Catholic Diocese of Banmaw claimed that the Burmese government “does nothing to help civilian refugees.”

A coalition of religious investors wants officials at 27 major U.S. companies to look deeper into the role human trafficking may play in the operation of their firms.

Pope Benedict opened a new Vatican Internet news portal with the first-ever papal tweet on June 28.