Signs Of the Times

Is working against unions tantamount to committing mortal sin?

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Marquette University on May 6 rescinded a job offer to a Seattle professor who is openly gay, a decision that has been criticized by some faculty members and students.

If even moderate effects from climate change occur as predicted, millions of people will be uprooted in the near future.

The investors have introduced shareholder resolutions that call upon the banks to act more openly in the trading of financial products known as derivatives.

The pope made his strongest remarks to date on sexual abuse cases at a press conference on May 11 during his flight to Portugal.

The outgoing superintendent in the archdiocese of Washington said vigorous support for Catholic education is lacking from both parents and pastors.

The church’s unwillingness to begin “a painful process of renewal” in the wake of the abuse scandal has left Diarmuid Martin “disheartened and discouraged.”

A new poll shows that U.S. Catholics’ approval of Pope Benedict XVI’s job performance dropped a “dramatic” 15 points over the past two years.

The scorched head of Mary is all that remains of the Nagasaki cathedral destroyed by the atomic bomb.