Signs Of the Times

Some bishops suggested that structural reforms would be required to preserve the identity and authority of the 22 Eastern churches.

The agency has been assigned the task of combating the “de- Christianization” of countries that were first evangelized centuries ago.

Almost 44 million Americans now live below the poverty line, and 21 percent of all U.S. children are growing up poor.

Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan has pledged a seat in a New York Catholic school for any child who wants it.

In Latin America, women hold only one-third of top-level jobs.

The last remaining Catholic adoption agency in England has filed an appeal against a decision forbidding it to turn away same-sex couples.

The president of the Philippine bishops’ conference denied reports that he threatened to excommunicate the president over his proposal to distribute contraceptives.

The U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, Miguel H. Díaz, said on Oct. 5 that human migration should be accepted as both a Christian and a political duty.

The Haitian hierarchy will receive substantial support from partners in North America and Europe.

If there are “large forces are at work against the poor,” so, too, there are good forces working for them.