Signs Of the Times

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.

The Group of Eight nations have pledged $20 billion to combat global hunger through greater support of agriculture

Catholic bishops from Spain’s Basque region kept quiet about the killing of priests by right-wing forces during the Spanish Civil War.

Pope Benedict XVI underwent a procedure under local anesthesia to repair a fractured right wrist.

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