Signs Of the Times

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.

Maria Odom, an immigration attorney in Georgia, has been named executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network.

“Climate change is another situation where the poor of the world are being made to suffe because of the habits of the first world,” said Cardinal Keith O’Brien of Scotland.

A groundbreaking survey of “religious activists” has found that activists on both ends of the political spectrum are deeply religious.

Pope Benedict XVI said that he was deeply saddened to hear of the roadside bombing that killed 10 Afghan civilians and six Italian soldiers.

Catholics in North Africa say that the Vatican does not seem to recognize that they face different challenges than sub-Saharan Africa.

Bishop Luis Santos Villeda said that dialogue is important to avoid the possibility of civil war.

The Vatican has approved a small change in the U.S. Catholic Catechism for Adults clarifying teaching about God’s covenant with the Jewish people.

Nearly two years after a controversial presidential election prompted widespread violence, Kenya remains a country on the brink of crisis.