Signs Of the Times

 “They have become even stronger, even after the death of Bin Laden,” said the outgoing head of Caritas Asia.

The bishops called for government action in the wake of the slaying of 27 workers on a farm owned by an alleged drug kingpin.

Five patients and one visitor at St. John’s Regional Medical Center lost their lives in the twister.

On May 25 Australian church leaders joined the global push for the canonization of the U.S. archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.

The Rockford Diocese shuts down its services after a new Illinois law requires placement with same-sex or cohabitating couples.

An expert says media distorts John Jay’s report as using the “blame Woodstock” explanation for priests’ abuse of children.

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.

Reports on the status of U.S.-based religious congregations of women will be sent to the Vatican by the end of the year by the apostolic visitator’s study of American religious life.

Researchers acknowledged that there is uncertainty about the scale of future risk, but argued, “Uncertainty is not a reason for inaction.”