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Pope urges Christians to stay in Israel as force for peace, stability
By Cindy Wooden
Posted: 5/12/2008
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Welcoming Israel's new ambassador to the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI urged Israel to help its Christian citizens remain in the country where they could be a force for peace and understanding.
Pope defends church’s teaching on artificial birth control
By John Thavis
Posted: 5/12/2008
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI defended the church's teaching against artificial birth control and said its wisdom has become clearer in light of new scientific discoveries and social trends.
Australian bishops list concerns with retired bishop’s book on abuse
By Dan McAloon
Posted: 5/12/2008
SYDNEY, Australia (CNS) -- The Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference has listed its concerns with a retired bishop's book that critiques sexual and authoritarian abuses in the church.
Church recognizes 17th-century Marian apparitions in France
By Catholic News Service
Posted: 5/9/2008
LAUS, France (CNS) -- The Catholic Church has officially recognized 17th-century Marian apparitions to a 17-year-old peasant girl in a southern Alpine village in France.
Anglican primate, pope discuss ecumenism, U.S. visit, Muslim dialogue
By Cindy Wooden
Posted: 5/9/2008
ROME (CNS) -- Two months before opening the Anglican Communion's Lambeth Conference, the Anglican primate was in Rome to commission his new representative to the Vatican, to meet privately with Pope Benedict XVI and to convene a Christian-Muslim dialogue.
Glendon: U.N. rights document shows recognition of common principles
By Cindy Wooden
Posted: 5/5/2008
ROME (CNS) -- The drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60 years ago and its adoption by almost every country in the world demonstrate that all peoples can recognize some basic common principles, said the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
Cardinal: Relics of Padre Pio remind Catholics saints were people
By Catholic News Service
Posted: 5/2/2008
SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy (CNS) -- Venerating the relics of St. Padre Pio is a reminder that the saints were real men and women who lived for God, said Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes.
Pope says trip to U.S. was opportunity to give, receive hope, faith
By Cindy Wooden
Posted: 5/2/2008
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI said his April 15-20 visit to the United Nations and the United States was an opportunity to give -- and to receive -- a witness to the power of hope and faith.
Authors mount a philosophical defense of human life in earliest stages
By Father John Flynn, LC
Posted: 5/2/2008
ROME (Zenit) -- Stem-cell research using material taken from human embryos continues to be hotly debated. Advocates of using embryos maintain that at such early stages, the cells cannot be considered a human person. However, a recent book by two philosophers argues the contrary.
Traditionalist society says it’s not time to reconcile with Vatican
By John Thavis
Posted: 4/25/2008
ROME (CNS) -- The head of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X, Bishop Bernard Fellay, said the time is not right for reconciliation with the Vatican, despite expanded freedom to use the Tridentine rite.
Pope achieved objectives critical to future of U.S. church
By John Thavis
Posted: 4/25/2008
NEW YORK (CNS) -- On his first trip to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI achieved three objectives that could be considered critical to the pastoral future of the American church.
Retired Vatican envoy from tiny San Marino helped heal world
By Carol Glatz
Posted: 4/25/2008
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Little did this pre-eminent surgeon from the tiny Republic of San Marino know that becoming an ambassador to the even smaller Vatican City State would give him a new platform from which to heal the world.
Group tries to stop flow of Christian emigration from Holy Land
By Judith Sudilovsky
Posted: 4/25/2008
JERUSALEM (CNS) -- Butros Abu Shanab said he may be like the tragic literary hero Don Quixote as he tries to stop the continuing tide of Christian emigration.
English diocese to stop adoption work because of gay rights laws
By Simon Caldwell
Posted: 4/25/2008
LONDON (CNS) -- An English Catholic diocese will cut its ties with an adoption agency because the diocese cannot accept the government's new laws on homosexual rights.
Paraguayans elect retired Bishop Lugo as president
By Catholic News Service
Posted: 4/25/2008
ASUNCION, Paraguay (CNS) -- Retired Bishop Fernando Lugo was elected president of Paraguay April 20, ending the six-decade rule of the Colorado Party.
Media report traffic to be restricted near Shanghai’s Sheshan shrine
By Catholic News Service
Posted: 4/23/2008
SHANGHAI, China (CNS) -- Shanghai media reported that, during the Marian month of May, traffic will be restricted around the suburban Sheshan area, where China's popular Marian shrine is located.
Franciscan says Catholic schools in Holy Land must be supported
By Simon Caldwell
Posted: 4/18/2008
LONDON (CNS) -- Christianity could vanish from Israel and the Palestinian territories within two generations unless more is done to support Catholic schools, said the head of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land.
Pope hopes to help heal wounds of priestly sex abuse during U.S. trip
By John Thavis
Posted: 4/18/2008
ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO THE U.S. (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI said he hoped to help heal the wounds of priestly sex abuse during his visit to the United States and promised steps to ensure that such acts do not happen again.
Pope says U.S. visit will be ’special missionary experience’
By John Thavis
Posted: 4/14/2008
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Two days before his first visit as pope to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI described the trip as a "special missionary experience" and requested prayers for its success.
Popemobile shipped to U.S., scheduled to arrive in early April
By Cindy Wooden
Posted: 4/11/2008
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While Pope Benedict XVI probably has not begun packing his bags for his April 15-20 trip to the United States, one big Vatican package was prepared just after Easter.
Through contacts, past trips, pope has finger on pulse of U.S. church
By Carol Glatz
Posted: 4/11/2008
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When Pope Benedict XVI visits the United States this spring, he will not be stepping into the unknown.
Scholar, pastor, enigma: German pope defies easy caricature
By John Thavis
Posted: 4/11/2008
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Americans will soon have their first close-up encounter with Pope Benedict XVI, a figure who, in the minds of many, is still coming into focus.
Christian group in U.K. sues Google for refusing to accept ad
By Simon Caldwell
Posted: 4/10/2008
LONDON (CNS) -- A Christian group is suing the Internet giant Google after it refused to take advertisements on abortion and religious content.
In U.S. Masses, pope to carry pastoral staff of Blessed Pope Pius IX
By Cindy Wooden
Posted: 4/10/2008
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When Pope Benedict XVI processes to the altars where he will celebrate Mass in Washington and New York, he will be carrying the pastoral staff of Blessed Pope Pius IX.
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