Signs Of the Times

Catholic health care advocates will be carefully reviewing the pope’s remarks to decide what the practical implications are.

“Our country has not stepped up to help,” said Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, “these people have nothing and cannot go back.”

U.N. officials have been forced to cancel flights carrying medical supplies to the affected area in Haiti.

The pope called access to adequate medical attention one of the “inalienable rights” of man

Has partisanship and politicization seeped into the church from U.S. culture?

John Halligan, S.J., and Beatrice Chipeta, a Rosarian sister, were winners of the Opus Prize on Nov. 11

A new report from the Truth Commission on Conscience in War calls for the U.S. military to allow for “selective conscientious objection.”

The Nobel Peace Prize-winner met thousands of supporters outside her home and repeated her message of democratic freedoms for Burma.

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston told Irish Catholics he came “to listen to your pain, your anger, but also your hopes and aspirations.”

The suicide of 18-year-old Tyler Clementi highlighted the possible role of religious groups in instilling negative views about homosexuals.