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Young people called to be apostles to their friends, Pope Benedict says
Before the recitation of the Angelus on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI spoke about his July 12-21 trip to Australia for... Read more
Feminists ignore baby girls killed by sex-selective abortions, pro-life leader says
Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute (PRI), has charged that American feminists are refusing to address the problem... Read more
Bishop explains Catholic position in response to death of Chilean woman who refused blood transfusion
In response to the commotion caused by the death of Chilean woman who was a Jehovah’s Witness and refused a... Read more
Pro-life student group sues Michigan university
A pro-life student group at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan is suing the school alleging its free speech rights... Read more
Minnesota professor claims to have desecrated Eucharist
Saying “Catholicism has been actively poisoning the minds of its practitioners” and characterizing religious instruction as “a devastating crime against... Read more
Anglican tensions not welcomed by Catholics, Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor says at Lambeth
The Catholic Church takes no pleasure in the tensions within the Anglican Church, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor said in a Friday... Read more
Humanae Vitae was and is sign of contradiction, says director of L’Osservatore Romano
The director of the L’Osservatore Romano, Giovanni Maria Vian, devoted his latest editorial to the importance of Paul VI’s encyclical... Read more
Chilean youth return from World Youth Day full of evangelical zeal
A group of 528 young people from Chile who traveled to Sydney for World Youth Day returned home on Thursday... Read more
Catholic Church criticizes pro-abortion campaign for using Bible quotes
The spokesman for the Archdiocese of Mexico City, Father Hugo Valdemar, criticized a campaign recently launched by “Catholics for Choice”... Read more
Vatican spokesman condemns open letter to the Pope as ‘paid propaganda’
It is “paid propaganda to promote the use of contraceptives” said Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi today as he harshly... Read more
Pope appoints San Antonio archbishop to the Pontifical Commission for Latin America
Today Pope Benedict named two members to the Pontifical Commission for Latin America: Archbishop of San Antonio, Jose Horacio Gomez;... Read more
Holy Father meets with prime minister of Iraq
Today at Castelgandolfo, the Holy Father met with Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri Kamel Al-Maliki. During the course of their... Read more
Canadian majority opposes Order of Canada for abortionist Morgentaler
A national phone poll of Canadian households claims that 55.8 percent of Canadians oppose the bestowal of the Order of... Read more
Priests still suffering from effects of Humanae Vitae dissenters, Vatican cardinal says
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the often debated papal encyclical Humanae Vitae, in which Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the... Read more
Board members from breakaway St. Louis parish reconcile with Church, join lawsuit
Three members of the board from the breakaway St. Stanislaus Kostka parish in St. Louis have reconciled with the Catholic... Read more
Fiji pilgrims experienced “tsunami of faith and joy” at World Youth Day
Pilgrims from the Fiji Islands have returned home after experiencing a “tsunami of faith and joy” at World Youth Day... Read more
John Paul II Foundation for Sports to be unveiled at the Vatican
On July 28, the John Paul II Foundation for Sports will be introduced during a press conference at the Marconi... Read more
Iraqi Christians begin church restoration campaign
Christians in the southern Iraq have begun a campaign to restore churches which have been rendered unusable due to war... Read more
Venezuelan bishop warns that the “Chavist” church seeking to name military chaplains
In statements on Union Radio, the vice president of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Roberto Luckert Leon, warned that the... Read more
South Dakota abortion clinic appears closed, despite Planned Parenthood denial
During what one pro-life advocate called “a great week in South Dakota for unborn children,” a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in... Read more
