Signs Of the Times

Drenching rains already are turning tent camps outside Port-au-Prince into muddy quagmires.

Holy Week in Pakistan this year was set against a backdrop of suicide bombings that have killed Catholic workers.

A Vatican commission expressed the hope that bishops and priests deprived of freedom would be allowed to resume their pastoral ministry.

“Without accountability for the past there will be no healing and no trust for the future,” Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said.

Vulnerable populations affected by wars and internal conflicts were among the major concerns highlighted in the report.

The Vatican nuncio to the United Nations said that cold war conditions that encouraged the church’s “limited toleration of nuclear deterrence” no longer exist.

A study reports that Latinos who have left the church since 1990 have shifted toward secularism as they become more Americanized.

More than 26 groups say their calls for a new model of development in Haiti are being ignored.

More than 200,000 people gathered for the March for America in Washington, D.C., in support of comprehensive immigration reform.

Continuing settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem presents a profound obstacle to reviving the Middle East peace process.