Signs Of the Times

“I think he’s making a tragic and horrible mistake,” said David Robinson, head of Pax Christi USA.

Christians conducted a vigil service in Bhopal, India, to remember victims and survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide chemical disaster.

“It is inconceivable that with more than 100 world leaders gathered together in one room…they have failed to commit themselves to adequate and binding obligations,” said the secretary general of Cidse.

The Senate bill “should not move forward in its current form,” the heads of three committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said on Dec. 19.

Pope Benedict XVI advanced the sainthood causes of Pope John Paul II and Pope Pius XII, declaring that both had lived lives of “heroic virtues.”

Bishop Howard J. Hubbard, the chair of the committee, called for the development of “specific criteria” for troop withdrawal.

“The U.S. is not becoming less Catholic because the Roman Catholic Church is becoming more Hispanic,” said Allan Figueroa Deck, S.J., at a Fordham University forum on “Being Latino.”

A group that aids migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has been ticketed him for littering after leaving supplies for the refugees.

The bill now before the Senate creates “new and completely unacceptable federal policy that endangers human life and rights of conscience,” three leading bishops said.

A report describing in detail failures of church leaders in handling sexual abuse cases in the Archdiocese of Dublin has resulted in calls for further investigations.