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Manila floods
Signs Of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources
According to a Vatican statement released on Sept. 20, Pope Francis has created a “special commission for the study of reform of the canonical matrimonial process” that will seek to simplify the procedure, “making it more streamlined, and safeguarding the principle of the indi
HIS KIND OF TOWN. Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane, Wash. at a meeting of the U .S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in New Orleans in June 2014.
Signs Of the Times
Kevin Clarke
Describing himself as “beyond surprised” by his appointment to the Archdiocese of Chicago, Spokane Bishop Blase Cupich pledged to work with people of faith to “serve the common good” and continue efforts to promote healing in a church community wounded by the sex abuse crisis
Fighting hunger. Volunteers serving up a warm meal through a Catholic Charities USA emergency assistance program last November in Chicago.
Signs Of the Times
Kevin Clarke
For the first time since the Great Recession threw the United States and then the world into an economic tailspin, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that the U.S. poverty rate experienced a year-over-year decline, falling from 15 percent in 2012 to 14.5 percent in 2013. The last time the rate declined
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi
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In an address at the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Sept. 11, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See’s permanent observer at the United Nations, described the tragic forms of contemporary slavery, such as “massive kidnappings and sale of young girls under the false premises of religi
Migrants walk as they disembark from navy ship in Sicilian harbor of Augusta.
Signs Of the Times
At least 124,000 migrants entered Italy in the first eight months of this year, more than twice the 60,000 who arrived in all of 2013. The vast majority landed first in Sicily. Seeing to the new arrivals’ immediate needs in Sicily’s multiple port cities is now a joint effort between chur
Father Liu Yong Wang distributes Communion during Mass in a makeshift Catholic chapel in a village outside Tianjin, China, July 17, 2012.
Signs Of the Times
Steven Schwankert
Authorities plan to promulgate an official version of Chinese Christian theology.