Signs Of the Times

Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer detain families at a much-criticized former medium-security prison in Texas.

Orphanage staffers are overwhelmed by the number of children being dropped off because their families cannot feed them.

“Our church’s ties with state and society here have significantly improved recently,” said a member of the Russian Catholic bishops’ conference.

Eddie Panlilio, a Catholic priest, has requested a dispensation from his priestly duties so that he may run for president of the Phillipines.

A lack of will and finger pointing have contributed to the international community’s failure to stop present-day mass violence.

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.