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Woman faces execution for murdering mother, kidnapping unborn child
A Jury on Friday recommended the death penalty in the case of a woman who killed an expectant mother and... Read more
Priest with secret marriage pleas guilty to half-million-dollar embezzlement
A retired Roman Catholic priest faces forty years in jail for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from two rural... Read more
Future cardinals thank Holy Father for remembering Africa
Archbishops Theodore Adrien Sarr of Dakar (Senegal) and John Njue of Nairobi (Kenya) thanked Pope Benedict XVI for naming them... Read more
Love letter from prison proof of martyrdom of Spanish youth
Bartolome Blanco Marquez is one of the youngest of the group of 498 martyrs beatified by Pope Benedict XVI this... Read more
Rio de Janeiro governor promotes legalization of abortion to reduce number of criminals
The governor of Rio de Janeiro, Sergio Cabral, has proposed legalizing abortion as means for reducing the number of criminals... Read more
Ecuador: new constitution and religious freedom
Today in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received the Letters of Credence of Fausto Cordovez Chiriboga, the new ambassador of the... Read more
Pope Benedict challenges pharmacists to refuse to dispense abortion pill
An international gathering of Catholic pharmacists was received by Pope Benedict today at the Vatican. In his talk with them,... Read more
Statistician refutes Planned Parenthood report
In a report issued on October 11, 2007 by the Guttmacher Institute (the research arm of Planned Parenthood) and the... Read more
Holy Father's Angelus on martyrdom in everyday life
After the beatification of 498 Spanish martyrs today in St. Peter’s square, the pope addressed the people in his weekly... Read more
Prime Minister of Iceland meets with Vatican officials
Friday morning, Pope Benedict received Geir H. Haarde in audience. Prime Minister Haarde met with Cardinal Bertone and the secretary... Read more
Do not become attracted by a permissive consumer society, Pope Benedict warns people of Gabon
Today the Holy Father received the bishops from the central African country of Gabon as they completed their "ad limina"... Read more
Three Church of Ireland parishes seek to become Catholic, move could bring in 400,000 Anglicans
Three Church of Ireland parishes have asked to be received into full communion with the Catholic Church, The Irish Catholic... Read more
Leading presidential candidate in Argentina will neither support nor prevent legalization of abortion
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who leads the polls in the Argentinean presidential campaign, said this week she is against abortion... Read more
Musicians fulfill dying wish of Cuban composer by finishing his CD
A group of Hispanic Catholic musicians will hold on concert on October 26 in Miami to launch a new CD... Read more
Muslim group attends Catholic Mass in Malaysian "breakthrough"
A Muslim group's recent visit to a Catholic Church in Malaysia is being called a breakthrough in grassroots interreligious dialogue. Read more
Feminists don’t speak for women, says Dominican cardinal in blistering reply
Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez of Santo Domingo, responded to criticism by radical feminists this week who accused him... Read more
Vocations DVD wins Hollywood award
Fishers of Men, a DVD created to inspire vocations to the priesthood, has been awarded the Gabriel Award for its... Read more
Pope says: Pray for a "New Pentecost" at Sydney's World Youth Day
Pope Benedict XVI's call for a New Pentecost at World Youth Day was featured in remarks made by Bishop Julian... Read more
Chavez is Caribbean version of French “I am the State,” warns Venezuelan archbishop
The vice president of the Bishops’ Conference of Venezuela, Archbishop Roberto Luckert, has called on the leader of the National... Read more
Cardinal Tauran: No need to create “United Nations” of religions
The president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, said during an interview with Vatican Radio that... Read more
