Signs Of the Times

The U.S.C.C.B. has withdrawn from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, citing the group’s “expanded and broadened agenda.”

Sister Margaret Mary McBride concurred with an ethics committee’s decision to abort the fetus of a gravely ill woman.

Pope Benedict XVI met last month with the first ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the Vatican.

Advocates for Haitian peasants said the company’s donation of hybrid vegetable seeds will harm the island-nation’s agriculture.

Presenting the working document for the special Synod of Bishops on the Middle East, Pope Benedict XVI prayed for “just and lasting solutions” to the region’s conflicts.

Inhabitants of low-lying islands across the Pacific know climate change is very real if rising sea levels are any indication.

The bishop’s driver was arrested as the prime suspect in the murder and confessed, Vatican Radio said.

A Catholic Charities USA survey paints a vivid picture of the new realities of an increasingly distressed American middle class.

Instead of quelling the violence in the border community in Mexico, the posting of troops and federal police officers has only accelerated the bloodletting.

One bishop believes New Hampshire flirts with great moral peril in retaining the death penality.