Signs Of the Times

Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died Aug. 11, was “a woman of ardent faith and generous public service” said the apostolic nuncio to the United States.

Booklets claiming that the Vatican helped organize tours of Auschwitz for members of Hezbollah were distributed to Israeli soldiers for several months.

Arch. Rowan Williams responds to the Episcopal Church’s recent decision to ordain non-celibate homosexuals.

The local archbishop welcomed the prison sentences a court has given to five people convicted of taking part in the August 2008 anti-Christian violence in Orissa.

The Vatican secretary of state said Pope Benedict XVI’s recent  encyclical was not calling for government control of the economy or the market.

Despite the decrease, a by the Pew Hispanic Center shows no increase in the flow of immigrants returning to Mexico.

The Christian village of Korian in the Punjab province of Pakistan was destroyed July 30 in a violent raid by thousands of Muslims.

In addition to giving Obama a copy of his latest encyclical, the pope also presented a copy of a recent Vatican document on biomedical ethics.

New disclosures have prompted a debate about how government-sponsored assassination should be viewed in light of the Catholic moral tradition.