Signs Of the Times

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.

The law marked “a needed and long awaited beginning” of bringing greater justice to all citizens,” the journal said.

Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet left his post amid rumors that the Vietnamese government had told the Vatican the archbishop must go.

Marquette University on May 6 rescinded a job offer to a Seattle professor who is openly gay, a decision that has been criticized by some faculty members and students.

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