Signs Of the Times

Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone (left) was installed as the 13th bishop of the Charleston Diocese March 25.

The Vatican does not have clear guidelines for applying the principle of reciprocity, said Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran.

President Obama said he would be happy to avoid ethical disputes if alternatives to embryonic stem-cell research turn out to be equally promising.

The Notre Dame president called President Obama’s upcoming visit “a basis for further positive engagement.

Mary Ann Glendon (left), former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, will receive the University of Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal on May 17.

In a major address in Krakow, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz assessed the progress of Jewish-Catholic relations in Poland over the last half-century.

The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life criticized a hasty public declaration of the excommunication of the girls mother and doctors.

The Diocese of Meru has developed a ritual called An Alternative Rite of Passage, which formally marks a girls passage into adolescence.

Prelates in several Latin American countries have spoken about the problem of drug trafficking in recent months.