Signs Of the Times

For the first time, an international meeting of bishops’ representatives heard testimony from a survivor of clergy sexual abuse.

The latest of the four Amazon activists to be killed was Adelino Ramos, a farmer and leader of the Corumbiara Peasant Movement.

Deacon Bernard V. Nojadera has been named to head the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection.

The U.S. bishops approved extensive revisions to their 2002 “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” June 16. Bishop Blase Cupich said it must remain “a front-burner issue.”

“There are many terrible scenarios that are pointing to war,” Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala said.

Pope Benedict XVI prayed that the world’s Gypsies no longer be subjected to prejudice, oppression and rejection.

A Vatican official urged all involved in the global economy to work for the common good and the protection of the most vulnerable.

John Garvey, president of Catholic University, said the school will be taking a stand against the “culture of hooking up” by phasing out coed dorms.

Spain’s National Court orders the arrest of 20 former Salvadoran military officers for 1989 murders in El Salvador.

The U.S. bishops’ spring general assembly consider of a new document on physician-assisted suicide.