Signs Of the Times

President Obama on June 14 nominated Ken Hackett, who served for 18 years as the president of Catholic Relief Services, to be U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. • A bill introduced by the Quebec government on June 12 that redefines palliative care to include “terminal medical sedation&rdquo

Conflict continues in Congo today as warlords vie for control of eastern regions.

Dr. Pellegrino published 23 books on medical science, philosophy and ethics.

A new state department report cited growing religious persecution in Arab Spring countries.

Finding a solution to the “ongoing scandal” of worldwide hunger should be a top priority, said the Vatican’s representative to the United Nations. Addressing a U.N. General Assembly meeting on sustainable development goals on May 23, Archbishop Francis A. Chullikatt, permanent obse

Father Greeley was perhaps most widely recognized for the more than 60 novels he wrote.

More than a million immigrants have been deported from over the past five years.

Immigrants for years have paid far more into Medicare’s coffers than they have drawn out, effectively subsidizing rising health care payments to the aging U.S. population, according to an analysis from Harvard Medical School released on May 29. From 2002 through 2009, immigrants posted a Medic

The patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad denounced a recent series of car bombings and shootings in cities in Iraq that left at least 54 people dead and dozens more injured. Patriarch Louis Sako said on May 20 that the current violence is between minority Sunni and majority Shiite Mu

At the end of 2011, the Catholic population worldwide reached 1.214 billion.