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Living Easter

April 6, 2015

Vol. 212 / No. 11

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UNKINDEST CUTS. Budget proposals out of Congress have proposed reductions in spending on social services like this Baltimore Catholic Charities Head Start program in Edgewood, Md.
Signs Of the Times

Catholic advocates are pressing Congress to make the needs of poor and vulnerable people a priority as legislators hammer out a federal spending plan for 2016. They want to prevent trillions of dollars in social services spending from disappearing over the next decade as Congress seeks to balance th

People march in protest of the death penalty and abortion in Texas. (CNS photo/Erik Noriega, Texas Catholic Herald)
Signs Of the Times

Pope Francis came out squarely against the death penalty on March 20, calling it “unacceptable” regardless of the seriousness of the crime of the condemned. Pope Francis met with a three-person delegation of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty and issued a letter on th

Signs Of the Times
Judith ValenteMarch 25, 2015

At a parish on Chicago’s North Side, Charles Dahm, O.P., finishes reading the Sunday Gospel, the familiar story of a woman accused of adultery who is threatened with public stoning until Jesus intervenes. Father Dahm then launches into a homily that surprises many.“Today I would like to

(CNS photo/Narendra Shrestha, EPA)
Signs Of the Times

U.S. and Canadian bishops joined their Latin American counterparts who came to Washington to testify about the environmental and social ills wrought by extractive industries like mining and logging. The bishops testified on March 19 before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in a bid to he

AT WHAT COST? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu burned a few bridges in the final days of his successful campaign.
Signs Of the Times
Gerard O’ConnellMarch 25, 2015

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel snatched victory out of what pollsters had predicted would be a shock defeat by ending his campaign with a rejection of a two-state solution for the 67-year-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict, by raising an alarm over Arab-Israeli voters that many condemned

Signs Of the Times

Catholic Relief Services was coordinating closely with Caritas Oceania agencies in an emergency response in Vanuatu, a remote island nation in the South Pacific devastated by Cyclone Pam on March 15. • As Kuwaiti legislators debated a law banning any new church construction, Sheikh Abdul Aziz b

Religious visit the hospital where a nun rape victim is recovering in Ranaghat, India. (CNS photo/Piyal Adhikary, EPA)
Signs Of the Times

Students at a Hindu-run school for the blind joined a nationwide outcry over the gang rape of a nun in her 70s. The 50 students at the Helen Keller School near the convent where the nun lived chanted “Mother we cannot see, but we can feel your pain,” on March 17, after news of the incide