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Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
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The Paris Agreement to combat climate change went into effect on Nov. 4, a landmark deal to tackle global warming amid growing fears that the world is becoming warmer even faster than scientists expected.
Baie de Grand Goâve. (Photo by U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Julio Rivera [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)
Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
Tim Padgett
Haitian expatriates have long considered themselves a “dissed” diaspora—in both their new country and the old.
Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
Rhona Tarrant
The call to liberalize Ireland’s abortion laws has created significant political pressure.
Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
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Iraqi Christians gathered on Oct. 25 at the Church of our Lady of Perpetual Help in Ainkawa, Turkey, to offer prayers of support for Iraqi forces pressing an offensive against the Islamic State around Mosul. • President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela met privately with Pope Francis an Oct. 24 as the Vatican began a mediation effort to end the political and economic crisis in Venezuela. • Rapid growth in the number of men entering St. John’s Seminary prompted the Archdiocese of Boston to buy back space from Boston College on Oct. 20.

A man carries a European Union flag in London June 24, a day after voters in the United Kingdom decided to leave the EU. (CNS photo/Neil Hall, Reuters)
Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
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The U.K.'s Catholic Association for Racial Justice plans to identify and support specific groups who have become newly vulnerable since Brexit.
Sister Jamie Phelps, O.P., of Chicago, begins the series.
FaithSigns Of the Times
Michael J. O’Loughlin
One of the more intriguing questions Pope Francis prompted earlier this year when he announced that a Vatican commission would study whether the early church had women deacons was: How would Catholics react to women preaching?