Signs Of the Times

New laws may help keep Wall Street in line, but what’s next?

Palestinians learn nonviolence to resist Israeli occupation.

Venezuela’s Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino butts heads—again—with President Hugo Chavez.

Catholic activists in India push back against land-use conversions from food to bio-fuels.

Sebastian Pinera rejects bishop’s call for a pardon that may include Chilean military and instead orders a review of Chile prison conditions for all inmates.

Paulist Father Lawrence Boadt, a leading Catholic biblical scholar and former CEO and president of Paulist Press, died at his residence in Mahwah, N.J., July 24 after a long battle with cancer. He was 67. ♦ In the wake of an undercover video and news report documenting priests in Rom

In June, the court voted to uphold a federal law that makes it a crime knowingly to provide “material support” to organizations designated as foreign terrorist groups.

“All of the musical settings need to be rewritten,” said Annette Wright, a director of music from Ray Township, Mich.

In a statement dated July 12, Cardinal Roger Mahony cited five areas of commonality.