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Signs Of the Times
In addition to giving Obama a copy of his latest encyclical, the pope also presented a copy of a recent Vatican document on biomedical ethics.
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The recent disclosure that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was developing a program to track down and kill individual Al Qaeda leaders has re-awakened legal and ethical questions about assassination as a tool of national policy. The program had been kept hidden from Congress until this spring,
Signs Of the Times

“Our church’s ties with state and society here have significantly improved recently,” said a member of the Russian Catholic bishops’ conference.

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Booklets claiming that the Vatican helped organize tours of Auschwitz for members of Hezbollah were distributed to Israeli soldiers for several months.

Signs Of the Times

The Vatican secretary of state said Pope Benedict XVI's recent  encyclical was not calling for government control of the economy or the market.

Signs Of the Times
New disclosures have prompted a debate about how government-sponsored assassination should be viewed in light of the Catholic moral tradition.