Signs Of the Times

Chiara Badano, a young member of the Focolare movement who died of bone cancer in 1990, was beatified on Sept. 25 in Rome.

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.

Despite a setback in the Senate, the acts seems to be gaining support on its merits.

In Britain Pope Benedict XVI called his listeners to recognize the interconnectedness of faith and reason, religion and politics.

The association was formed in part to voice opposition to the new English-language translation of the Mass.

Christians remain confident of their acceptance by the larger Muslim society as King Abdullah II remains a guarantor of their security.

The two Ugandan bishops argued that dialogue with the Lord’s Resistance Army would work better than a military option against it.

The Rev. Robert Barron, right, a priest, teacher and evangelist, is launching “Word on Fire With Father Barron,” a weekly national program on WGN America.

The increase in poverty rates in 2009 was the second-largest year-to-year uptick since 2004.