Signs Of the Times

A critical factor will be the doctors’ evaluation concerning the woman’s mental state and whether or not she was “of sound mind.”

Orthodox Christians in predominantly Muslim Turkey “don’t feel that we enjoy our full rights as Turkish citizens,” said Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the spiritual head of the world’s 300 million Orthodox.

A total of four bishops have now resigned as a result of a recent report on how the Dublin Archdiocese covered up allegations of clerical sex abuse.

“We simply cannot accept the continuation of a situation that is [most affecting] the people who have contributed least to the problem.”

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.

Explosives were detonated inside St. Ephrem’s Church on Nov. 26, and the building was reduced to a “blackened shell.”

The U.N.-sponsored World Summit on Food Security in Rome ended with many participants frustrated with the lack of progress on food security goals.

Archbishop Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, said the ecumenical situation really is a “glass half full.”