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Pope Benedict: As children of God, we may invoke God as ‘Abba’
In his general audience earlier today in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict XVI encouraged nearly 15,000 listeners to realize that... Read more
Holy Father hopes ‘Torch of Peace’ will encourage spread of Christian values in Europe
Following his general audience this morning at the Vatican, Pope Benedict greeted a group of delegates from the Italian diocese... Read more
Pope Benedict decries “cafeteria Catholicism”
Speaking on the newly released Compendium to the Catechism of the Catholic Church Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI stressed the need... Read more
Letter from John Paul II to Ali Agca never sent, archbishop reveals
John Paul II’s longtime personal secretary, Archbishop Stanislao Dziwisz of Krakow, confirmed this week the late Pontiff had written a... Read more
British Catholic Action Group decries joint-religious schools
A Catholic group in the U.K. aiming to preserve authentic Catholic teaching is expressing outage at proposals throughout the U.K.... Read more
World Youth Day cross begins final push for Cologne, eyes of the world turn to Germany
On Friday, Catholics around the world will begin the final forty-day countdown before the 11th annual World Youth Day celebration,... Read more
Many Ratzinger critics warming up to soft-spoken Pope Benedict
The New York Times reported this week that many former critics of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger are warming up to the... Read more
Canadian Archbishop warns against impending female-ordination ceremony
In the wake of an invalid ceremony on Saturday in which a French woman declared herself a Catholic priest, Kingston,... Read more
Colombian bishops: child’s right to a father and a mother supersede homosexual demands
The Secretary General of the Bishops’ Conference of Colombia, Bishop Fabian Marlanda, reiterated this week the Church’s opposition to the... Read more
Show the face of Christ to the world, cardinal tells young people attending WYD
During a press conference on World Youth Day 2005, which will take place in Germany in August, Cardinal Joachim Meisner... Read more
Opposition to same-sex “marriage” is not discrimination against homosexuals
Bishop Jose Sanchez Gonzalez of Sigüenza-Guadalajara, Spain, said this week opposition to same-sex marriage is not tantamount to discrimination against... Read more
Chinese Government arrests Vatican faithful bishop for the 6th time
Bishop Julio Jia Zhiguo, 70, member of the China's underground Catholic church, has been arrested for the sixth time in... Read more
Instrumentum Laboris for Eucharistic Synod to be presented Thursday
The Vatican announced this morning that a presentation will take place Thursday, July 7th of the “Instrumentum Laboris” for the... Read more
US and Mexican bishops acknowledge challenge of immigration for society and the Church
The president of the Committee on Migration of the Mexican Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Renato Ascencio Leon of Ciudad Juarez, said... Read more
200,000 protest poverty ahead of G8 Summit, Vatican voices support
In light of the commencement of tomorrow’s G8 Summit, which will bring the leaders of the 8 most industrialized nations... Read more
French woman invalidly ordained as ‘priest’
A French woman who invalidly had herself ‘ordained’ as a Catholic priest on Saturday, is now facing automatic excommunication for... Read more
Australia vies for 2008 World Youth Day
As the Catholic Church prepares for the massive World Youth Day celebration to be held in Cologne, Germany next month,... Read more
China releases imprisoned priest
According to the missionary association, AsiaNews, a Catholic priest who has been under house arrest by the Chinese government for... Read more
In Sudan, “Martyrdom is real”, says priest
Speaking in Liverpool to friends and supporters of the international Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) last... Read more
Salvadoran archbishop denounces occupation of Cathedral by protestors
Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle of San Salvador denounced the occupation of the city’s Cathedral this week by a group of... Read more
