Latest Catholic News

Pope praises new film for showing JPII’s ‘valor’ and ‘evangelical passion’

Oct 17, 2008

The Vatican’s Paul VI Hall hosted a screening of a new documentary on the life of Pope John Paul II... Read more

CNA

Bishops and Knights of Columbus launch project to prevent redefinition of marriage

Oct 17, 2008

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has joined with the Knights of Columbus in developing a national plan of... Read more

CNA

Cardinal Canizares: without catechesis there would be no evangelization

Oct 17, 2008

Cardinal Antonio Canizares of Toledo in Spain said during the synod of bishops this week that without serious and solid... Read more

CNA

Doctors establish Denver affiliate of Catholic Medical Association

Oct 17, 2008

On Saturday afternoon during the Archdiocese of Denver’s first annual White Mass for physicians and other health care providers, Archbishop... Read more

CNA

Catholic college president asked to clarify support for church teaching on abortion

Oct 16, 2008

The Cardinal Newman Society has issued a statement criticizing Pamela Trotman Reid, president of St. Joseph College in West Hartford,... Read more

Archbishop Edwin F. O´Brien

Archbishop O’Brien orders alleged Marian seer to stop spreading messages

Oct 16, 2008

Edwin F. O’Brien, Archbishop of Baltimore, has ordered a woman who claims to receive visions of the Virgin Mary to... Read more

CNA

Church in Spain refuses archives access to those who want to relive Civil War

Oct 16, 2008

The Church in Asturias in Spain has announced that out respect for the privacy of Catholic families, it will not... Read more

CNA

Pope Benedict says world can feed everyone

Oct 16, 2008

Marking the annual World Food Day event held every October 16, Pope Benedict XVI has written a message to Jacques... Read more

Church in Ecuador needs ‘mature and committed’ lay people, Pope Benedict tells bishops

Oct 16, 2008

On Thursday Pope Benedict XVI received prelates from the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference following the completion of their “ad limina” visit.... Read more

Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz / Pope John Paul II

JPII injured in 1982 by knife-wielding priest, new documentary discloses

Oct 16, 2008

The former secretary of the late Pope John Paul II has revealed new details about the life of the Servant... Read more

CNA

Cardinal Ouellet presents summary of Synod

Oct 16, 2008

The Seventeenth General Congregation of the Twelfth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops was held on Thursday in... Read more

CNA

Brazilian bishop: Catholics turn to religious sects because they don’t see God in the Church

Oct 16, 2008

Archbishop Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo of Belo Horizonte in Brazil said this Monday during the Synod of Bishops that religious... Read more

Revelation ‘purifies and exalts’ reason, Pope says

Oct 16, 2008

Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday declared Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Fides et Ratio to be of “constant relevance” during... Read more

George Weigel

Pro-life Catholics who support Obama face criticism

Oct 16, 2008

Catholic political commentator George Weigel has criticized pro-life Catholics who support the pro-abortion rights Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama.... Read more

Bishop Martin Holley

Abortion must be addressed ‘for the survival of African American people,’Catholic bishop asserts

Oct 16, 2008

Responding to information from the Guttmacher Institute reporting that black woman have abortions at five times the rate of white... Read more

CNA

Active silence with the Word opens one to conversion, says Peruvian founder

Oct 15, 2008

During the Synod of Bishops on Tuesday, the Peruvian founder of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, Luis Fernando Figari Rodrigo, said... Read more

Yes on 8 supporters holding yard signs in front of St. Stanislaus

Attack outside of Catholic church part of 'wave of intimidation,' says Yes on 8

Oct 15, 2008

This past Sunday, a parishioner at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Modesto, California was attacked while helping promote Proposition 8,... Read more

Supreme Knight Carl Anderson

New survey examines political differences between practicing and non-practicing Catholics

Oct 15, 2008

A recent survey sponsored by the Knights of Columbus sheds new light on the Catholic vote by examining the differences... Read more

CNA

Church in Mexico calls on public officials to reduce expenditures in response to crisis

Oct 15, 2008

In an editorial published by its weekly magazine, the Archdiocese of Mexico has called on government officials to “tighten their... Read more

Pope calls for theologians and Bible scholars to work together more closely

Oct 15, 2008

Pope Benedict XVI surprised the Synod of Bishops this week by taking the microphone and addressing the prelates about issues... Read more