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A worshipper smokes a cigar beside a painting in the shrine of St. Lazarus in the town of El Rincon, Cuba, in December 2013. (CNS photo/Desmond Boylan, Reuters)
News
December 19, 2014
Watching a Vatican-brokered diplomatic breakthrough in December that may lead to the normalization of relations between the United States and the island-nation of Cuba Eusebio Mujal-Le n was hardly a disinterested bystander A professor and former Chair of the Department of Government at Georgetow
Cuban President Fidel Castro gestures to Pope John Paul II in Havana in 1998. It was the first visit to Cuba by a pope, and the Polish pontiff used it to appeal for greater religious rights. (CNS photo/Reuters)
News
December 17, 2014
American Alan Gross has been released in an apparent exchange with Cuba that has allowed the United States to proceed with a historic normalization of relations with Cuba after decades of hostility suspicion and economic embargo that has previously been lamented by Vatican officials as unproductive
In All Things
December 12, 2014
Two years after a school shooting in Newtown Conn horrified the nation not much has changed in terms of U S gun laws and the number of weapons in circulation in the United States has only increased Worst of all according to one gun-control advocacy group 94 other school shooting incidents ha
FALSE SECURITY. Ballistic missiles at a Russian parade.
Signs Of the Times
December 11, 2014
The Catholic Church seemed to throw its support behind what is, in Europe at least, an accelerating movement toward the abolition of nuclear weapons during the first day, Dec. 8, of the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons.In a message to the conference participants from P
Dispatches
December 09, 2014
Author Eric Schlosser spent six years researching the safety record of the keepers of America rsquo s diminished but still vast nuclear arsenal The most shocking thing he rsquo s learned ldquo That the difference between safety and catastrophe in the United States has come down to a single switch
Representatives of several faith traditions assemble to discuss no-nukes movement at forum in Vienna.
Dispatches
December 09, 2014
Speaking at a conference on the potential and current humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons a two-day event which drew the participation of 150 nations and media from around the world but which has been largely ignored in the United States a representative of the Holy See questioned the persisten
Dispatches
December 09, 2014
Archbishop Silvio Tomasi nbsp Permanent Representative of the Holy See to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva nbsp speaking as a representative of The Holy See issued the following statement today Dec 9 during nbsp the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact
A Japanese tourist views a board showing details of North Korean missiles at an observation post near the demilitarized zone near Seoul, South Korea, in 2009. (CNS photo/Lee Jae-Won, Reuters)
News
December 08, 2014
The Catholic Church seemed to throw its support behind what is in Europe at least an accelerating movement demanding the abolition of nuclear weapons during the first day of the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Dec 8 In a message to the conference participants fr
Gone in a flash? Christmas comes to St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.
News
December 07, 2014
The rain is falling softly in the evening December chill in Vienna but that has done little to deter the tourists crowding the city rsquo s Christmas markets The historic city center is awash on Dec 6 with Christmas lights and decorations and young and old are out each evening making merry and
EYES ON THE PRIZE. Outside the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix, Abel and Idalia Rodríguez watch a live broadcast as President Obama describes his plan for immigration reform on Nov. 20.
Signs Of the Times
November 25, 2014
President Obama’s plan to essentially freeze most deportations of people without documentation in the United States would protect as many as 4.4 million people and their families. “Mass amnesty would be unfair,” the president said in a televised speech to the nation on Nov. 20. &ld