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Signs Of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources
The U.S. Supreme Court on April 28 heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of states’ restricting the definition and recognition of marriage to the union of one man and one woman. Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, comment
Carmelite Sister Maria Julia Garcia shows some of Archbishop Oscar Romero's relics at a museum in San Salvador.
Signs Of the Times
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When Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated on March 24, 1980, the vestments he wore were bathed in blood. After the attack, Carmelite nuns who managed Divine Providence Hospital in El Salvador kept them and other belongings with the greatest possible care. For 35 years, the congregation and the s
CONTAINING A CRISIS. Catholic Relief Services’ staff distribute shelter and hygiene kits in a village in Nepal’s Gorkha District.
Signs Of the Times
Kevin Clarke
Catholic Relief Services and its partners within the Caritas Internationalis network of relief and development agencies have begun looking to what lies ahead for Nepal as the poverty-stricken nation recovers from a devastating earthquake.America got a frontline report on May 6 from Jennifer Hardy, a
CONSERVATIVE WIN. Prime Minister David Cameron.
Signs Of the Times
David Stewart
British pundits, pollsters and commentators all got it comprehensively wrong. Even senior politicians could not believe what they were seeing, and not one of them dared to claim they had predicted this. As the particularly British ritual of vote-counts in drafty sports halls amid solemn victory conf
Forgotten Abyei
Signs Of the Times
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Catholic workers in the contested region of Abyei, who complained in April that the world has lost interest in the unresolved border feud between Sudan and South Sudan, are launching new efforts to make peace between the two ethnic groups that claim the isolated region. • For a Vatican charity
HOPE BUILDING. Archbishop William Lori tours West Baltimore the morning after civil unrest brought national attention to conditions in the city’s Sandtown neighborhood.
Signs Of the Times
Kevin Clarke
Three days after Archbishop William Lori’s city of Baltimore was rocked by civil unrest that began as a young man who died while in police custody was laid to rest, the archbishop was pondering how the local church could respond to the crisis in the city’s streets.“We’re not