Signs Of the Times

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.

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.

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

Supreme Court candidate Sonia Sotomayor took on detailed questions about court cases both famous and arcane.

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.

Christian and Muslim leaders called two bomb blasts in Jakarta on July 17 “uncivilized acts” and urged the police to apprehend the culprits.