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Signs Of the Times
Jim McDermott
In many ways the success of In-N-Out Burgers in Los Angeles is mystifying.
South Sudanese woman gives alms during Mass in camp for displaced people. (CNS photo/Jim Lopez, EPA)
Signs Of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources
South Sudan’s bishops reiterated their call for an end to fighting in their country and warned of a humanitarian disaster. “The fighting and killing must stop immediately and unconditionally,” the bishops said on Sept. 25, at the end of a three-day meeting that coincided with the r
Dr. Aileen Marty
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Returning to her home in Miami after a month-long assignment to West Africa, Dr. Aileen Marty, a former U.S. Navy doctor and expert in infectious diseases, said on Sept. 22 that the deadly Ebola outbreak will be contained only if all ports of entry in the region are adequately screened for infected
Voter leaves polling station in Scotland
Signs Of the Times
David Stewart
Supporters of Scottish independence did not see the result they were hoping for, but it is fair to say that democracy won in a national referendum that included 85 percent of Scotland’s eligible voters. At 8:06 am on Friday morning, Sept. 19, “No” crossed the line. The result, 55 t
Cardinal Walter Kasper of Germany
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“They claim to know on their own what truth is, but Catholic doctrine is not a closed system, but a living tradition that develops,” Cardinal Walter Kasper of Germany told the Italian daily Il Mattino on Sept. 18. Cardinal Kasper was responding to a new book featuring contributions by fi
Syrian migrant attends commemorative service at harbor in Malta for immigrants who lost their lives at sea.
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The deaths of up to 500 mostly Palestinian and Syrian migrants and refugees could be an act of mass murder, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, said on Sept. 19. Hundreds of migrant workers and refugees from Gaza and Syrian conflicts were aboard a boat that left