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The Easter Rising Revisited

April 25, 2016

Vol. 214 / No. 14

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Signs Of the Times

Lizzy Myers of Mansfield, Ohio, a 5-year-old girl who has a disease that is gradually rendering her blind and deaf, met the pope as part of her parents’ “visual bucket list,” during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on April 6. • The relics of St.

WALKING INTO HISTORY. Cuban President Raul Castro and U.S. President Barack Obama review Cuban soldiers during a welcome ceremony for Obama at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, March 21 (CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters).
Signs Of the Times
Tim PadgettApril 14, 2016

The Catholic Church is vying with Communism by teaching Cubans capitalism.

Signs Of the Times

The Indian government might have dispelled rumors of the alleged Good Friday crucifixion of the Salesian priest Thomas Uzhunnalil, but his brother, Mathew, still worries. “I am waiting for clear good news,” said Uzhunnalil, 73. Since his brother was kidnapped in Aden, Yemen, Uzhunnalil h

Signs Of the Times

At a conference sponsored by the Holy See Mission to the United Nations, the message was clear: ending human trafficking and all forms of modern slavery is within global reach, but the complete abolition of these contemporary scourges remains frustrated by a lack of leadership, cross-border coordina

Signs Of the Times
Kevin ClarkeApril 14, 2016

Commenting on the apostolic exhortation during a press discussion a few hours after its formal release on April 8, Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo, N.Y., chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, said, “Amoris Laetitia” was focused

Signs Of the Times

On a number of Native American reservations the suicide rate is unusually high. That is especially true on the Rosebud Reservation in south central South Dakota. In 2007—at the height of an ongoing suicide epidemic—the number of deaths by suicide on Rosebud was roughly 13 times the natio

Signs Of the Times
Gerard O’ConnellApril 14, 2016

In his post-synodal apostolic exhortation on the family, “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), Pope Francis not only strongly affirms the traditional Christian ideal of marriage; he also opens doors to the progressive integration into the life of the church of those Catholic