Signs Of the Times

At a press conference in Washington, D.C., two Congressmen urged Obama to forgo rescinding the Bush administration’s conscience-protection regulation.

The 2,600-page report of the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse “throws light on a dark period of the past.”

A relief worker who recently returned from Pakistan’s Swat Valley said the civilians displaced by a government crackdown face “horrible conditions.”

Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Israel on May 11, the midpoint of his eight-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Catholic social justice organizations, petitioned President Obama to support the formation of an independent commission on the use of torture.

Several rulings and policy announcements are effectively rolling back immigration policies initiated by the George W. Bush administration.

The “Oppose Destructive Stem-Cell Research campaign encourages viewers to express opposition to proposed federal guidelines.

Father Robert J. Cornell died May 10 at St. Norbert Abbey in De Pere, Wis.

“We’re very hopeful that significant health reform is going to happen,” said Jeff Tieman of the Catholic Health Association.

Only 48 residents of the Gaza Stripabout half as many as originally reportedwere able to attend the papal Mass in Bethlehem.