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.

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.

Cardinal óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga denied that the church supported the coup détat.

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.