Signs Of the Times

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

Vatican cautions that the successful development of a synthetic cell can have many practical applications, but the technology must be regulated.

Cardinal DiNardo supports the Protect Life Act, which seeks to prevent the use of federal dollars for abortion coverage.

U.N. human rights experts call upon Honduran government to guard the safety of journalists.

The U.S.C.C.B. has withdrawn from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, citing the group’s “expanded and broadened agenda.”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

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.