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Festival of Encounter

October 19, 2015

Vol. 213 / No. 11

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The EditorsOctober 07, 2015

Volkswagen has been found guilty of a particularly noxious kind of duplicity.

Philosopher's Notebook
John J. Conley, S.J.October 07, 2015

This expanded intervention of the state weakens personal freedom.

Signs Of the Times

Attempting to stamp out a controversy that threatened to overshadow the many historic moments of the pope’s first visit to the United States, the Vatican issued a statement on Oct. 2 to clarify the circumstances of the pope’s meeting with embattled Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis. Accord

Archbishop Socrates Villegas, head of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, talks to the media at the end of the bishops' plenary session in Manila July 13. (CNS photo/Simone Orendain)
Signs Of the Times

Church leaders in the southern Philippines said the killing of tribal leaders and the harassment suffered by indigenous peoples in Mindanao are related to mining operations in the area. The tribal people “who firmly stand against mining activities were the ones being intimidated by paramilitar

OPENING MASS. Synod of Bishops on the family.
Signs Of the Times
Gerard O’ConnellOctober 07, 2015

‘A church with closed doors betrays herself and her mission, and, instead of being a bridge, becomes a roadblock,” Pope Francis said in his homily during a concelebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Oct. 4, as he opened the meeting of the Synod of Bishops on the family.Francis i

U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands following a joint news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House Sept. 25 in Washington. (CNS photo/Gary Cameron, Reuters)
Signs Of the Times
Steven Schwankert October 07, 2015

Mr. Xi’s visit came as his leadership of China’s economy is increasingly being questioned.

Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan gestures during a press conference on the human rights situation of Christians in Iraq and Syria at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva Sept. 16. (CNS photo/Salvatore di Nolfi, EPA)
Signs Of the Times

An Ethiopian priest, Tesfaye Tadesse Gebresilasie, became the first African to be elected superior general of the Comboni Missionaries on Sept. 30. • The Vatican denounced the decision by Msgr. Krzysztof Charamsa of Poland on the eve of the Synod of Bishops’ meeting on the family to annou