Signs Of the Times

In the first week of its new term, the court heard a case concerning a cross displayed on public land.

The bishops’ representatives expressed concern about the plan’s affordability and its failure to address questions about abortion coverage and the health of immigrants.

Europe’s Catholic bishops commemorated the end of the continent’s division between East and West with warnings of a new crisis of values.

The Vatican’s foreign affairs minister has called for the establishment of a “nuclear-free zone” in the Middle East.

Pregnancy resource serve an estimated 1.9 million people each year and rely heavily on volunteer support.

More than 1,000 students from the District of Columbia assembled in Washington to urge members of Congress to support an endangered federal voucher program.

Christian girls in the Gaza Strip are under pressure to wear Islamic dress in public schools.

Many people who fled the country during the war have returned, although they struggle to survive amid a shattered economy.

Carl A. Anderson, the supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, has been named by Pope Benedict XVI to a council that supervises the Vatican bank.

The second Synod of Bishops for Africa will spotlight the “forgotten wars” that are no longer on the media radar but cause daily suffering.