Signs Of the Times

“There will be nothing expected of you but your presence and your willingness to pray with me,” said Pittsburgh Bishop David A. Zubik.

The diocese recently announced a new initiative to encourage area Catholics to conserve water and energy.

We are simply beyond capacity at this point, said a Catholic Charities worker in St. Louis, Mo.

Pope Benedict XVI called for all nations to end the production, stockpiling and use of land mines and cluster bombs.

An estimated 150,000 ethnic Tamils are still trapped in a small patch of Tamil-controlled area in the northeast of the island country.

It implements a novel understanding of marriage, which will grievously harm families and children, the bishops said.

Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Birmingham, England (left), as archbishop of Westminster.

“This is a step in the right direction,” said Father Jose Espino, a priest of the Miami Archdiocese and a Cuban native.

After the Supreme Court in 1976 allowed states to reinstate the death penalty, 37 states had laws on the books permitting capital punishment.