Signs Of the Times

Catholic and other church-owned health systems have been shown to demonstrate greater quality and efficiency than not-for-profit or investor-owned systems.

A generation after the end of the cold war, the Initiative proposes redirecting resources saved by nuclear arms reductions toward peace-building.

Catholic dioceses continue to report mounting problems keeping their schools afloat amid a lackluster economy.

Anglo-Catholic clergy are sharply divided over how to respond to the ordination of women as bishops.

Pope Benedict XVI praised the 108 nations that have adopted a treaty banning the stockpiling and use of cluster bombs.

Catholic aid organizations are responding in Pakistan after the most intense monsoon rains in the past 30 years caused landslides and floods.

Catholic Relief Services and Caritas Internationalis coordinate a global response to the unprecedented emergency in Pakistan

Access to water is just one small part of the complex of political and structural discord between Israelis and the Palestinians.

The campaign to prevent the construction of a Muslim community center near the site of the World Trade Center attacks is emblematic of an “Islamophobia,” John L. Esposito said.

Two weeks after the government of Peru threatened to expel Paul McAuley, a La Salle brother and British missionary known for his environmental defense work, the president of the Peruvian bishops’ conference expressed his “full support for the…[country’s] missionaries in their work of evangelization.”