Signs Of the Times

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor said that the pope’s “own house has to be put in order.”

The next pope will have a Catholic world in transformation to shepherd.

German bishops agreed to permit certain types of “morning after” pills.

Ellen Grady, a member of the Catholic Worker from Ithaca, N.Y., does not like the idea that war has come home to her backyard. The war, in this case, is the country’s war on terror. The place where it is being waged is the Hancock Field Air National Guard Base near Syracuse, a little more than

A Sri Lankan Catholic bishop and 132 Christian clergypersons and religious from different churches in north and east Sri Lanka have written a letter to the U.N. Human Rights Council appealing for an end to the crisis in that country. They charge that thousands of Tamil people, including church leade

Kasper spoke of a “deaconess” role that could include special liturgical functions.

Mary Jo Copeland, founder of Sharing and Caring Hands and Mary’s Place for the homeless in Minneapolis, Minn., was honored on Feb. 15 with the Presidential Citizens Medal. • A Pew Research survey reports Americans favor President Obama’s proposal to raise the minimum wage to $9 an h

Three favorites: Cardinals Angelo Scola, Peter Turkson and Marc Ouellet

President Obama’s agenda includes many items on the wish-list of faith-based organizations.

The United Nations reports that the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has exceeded 265,000 and that it expects 1.1 million Syrian refugees overall in surrounding nations by June. • Human rights groups are concerned by reports that the Zimbabwean prison service, where 74 men and 2 women are b