Signs Of the Times

“The whole country is in shock,” a spokesman for the country’s bishops said.

The process to beatify and eventually canonize the slain archbishop has been “unblocked.”

The peace advocate Immaculée Ilibagiza became an American citizen on April 17.

For nearly two decades the people of the Congo have known nothing but conflict.

“We must forgive and fight for union to prevail over division,” the bishops said.

The Assumption Catholic Parish is one of the largest church communities in West, Tex.

Antiterrorism efforts have improved since the lack of coordination after Sept. 11.

In an letter to Secretary of State John Kerry on April 11, Bishop Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, Iowa, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, urged the Obama administration to expedite a review of U.N. Arms Trade Treaty, so the president can sign it in ear

The idea is that when the public is informed, violations like this are far less likely to be repeated.

It is not just undocumented immigrants themselves who support reform.