Signs Of the Times

Some 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by repeated cycles of political and criminal violence, according to a World Bank report.

Denver’s Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said “there’s just an inability among the bishops together to speak clearly on this matter.”

The Vatican and many of the Latin-rite bishops of India are not treating the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church with justice, an Indian bishop said.

The Quakers consider the boycott a nonviolent move for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

James Martin, S.J., author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything and America’s culture editor, will be honored with a Christopher Award on May 19.

The government of Vietnam has reprotedly intensified repression of indigenous Christians from the country’s central highland provinces.

In a frank address in Milwaukee, Wi., Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin said “restorative justice is not cheap justice.”

The Supreme Court on April 4 tossed out a challenge to Arizona’s tuition tax credit program.

As Catholics, “we understand the need…to [protect] the civil rights of our Muslim brothers and sisters,” Cardinal Theodore McCarrick said.

Violent protests by South Africans demanding better living conditions are a warning to the authorities, church leaders said.