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March 17, 2014

Vol. 210 / No. 9

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Seamus Heaney
Culture
Michael DoyleMarch 04, 2014

Remembering Seamus Heaney, weaver of words

(CNS photo/Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt, U.S. Air Force handout via Reuters)
Current Comment
The EditorsMarch 04, 2014

Drone strike against wedding party in Yemen violated policy endorsed by Obama, says HRW.

Of Other Things
William T. CavanaughMarch 04, 2014

Citizen United protects free speech but ignores disparities of power among different speakers.

On The Move: Rebel in Upper Nile State on Feb. 13, 2014.
Signs Of the Times
Kevin ClarkeMarch 04, 2014

A cease-fire that seemed to offer a chance for a peaceful resolution to months-long conflict in the world’s newest nation, South Sudan, has unraveled. Intermittent fighting has continued since the cease-fire agreement was signed on Jan. 23. But now in Malakal, a key city in an oil-producing re

Wissam Akiki
Signs Of the Times

Father Wissam Akiki became the first married man to be ordained a priest for the U.S. Maronite Catholic Church on Feb. 27 at St. Raymond’s Maronite Cathedral in St. Louis, Mo. • Thousands lined up at the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus on Feb. 24 in hope of receiving one of

Pope Francis greets Pittsburgh bishop during general audience at Vatican. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)
Signs Of the Times

In a speech to the Congregation for Bishops, Pope Francis said bishops should act not like ambitious corporate executives but as humble evangelists and men of prayer, willing to sacrifice everything for their flocks. “We don’t need a manager, the C.E.O. of a business, nor someone who sha

Chaplain religious education instruction to inmates in a Florida prison. (CNS photo/Daron Dean)
Signs Of the Times

“The church in the United States has a moral and ethical imperative to protect human dignity and must address the problem of mass incarceration in our nation,” the leaders of Christian Churches Together in the U.S.A. said in a statement issued on Feb. 7 in Newark, N.J. The coalition incl