Signs Of the Times

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.

Ethical values are needed to overcome the current global economic crisis, said Pope Benedict XVI in Caritas in Veritate.

The Catholic social tradition, President Obama said, still impresses me, and it can be a powerful force still in American society.

We think that a return to the country at this time could unleash a bloodbath, said Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga.

The ambiguities in a seven-year-old document from Catholic and Jewish dialogue partners are continuing to cause confusion.