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“We need to trust life!” says Pope in message from hospital
Yesterday, in his message delivered from his hospital room at the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, John Paul II affirmed urged... Read more
Holy Father continues to improve, says Vatican
Today at noon, Rome time, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, director of the Holy See Press Office, read a bulletin to journalists giving... Read more
Vatican denies Pope's message pre-recorded
The Vatican has denied Pope John Paul II had help from a pre-recorded tape in reciting the Angelus from his... Read more
Centrist Catholics, Protestants won Bush the election, survey says
Moderate Catholics and Protestants were more influential than religious conservatives in President George Bush’s re-election, says a University of Akron... Read more
Same-sex marriage decision is ‘judicial imperialism’, says Catholic League
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced that he would appeal the New York State Supreme Court’s decision to allow... Read more
Diocese warns Catholics against man posing as priest
The Diocese of Peoria has issued an advisory to Catholics in western and central Illinois not to attend mass or... Read more
Pope tells seminarians to love and imitate Mary in order to be faithful priests
On Saturday at the Vatican, community members of the Pontifical Major Seminary of Rome participated in their traditional meeting for... Read more
Cardinal Stafford to preside on Pope’s behalf at Ash Wednesday Mass
With Wednesday being the start of Lent, the Vatican announced that Cardinal James Francis Stafford, major penitentiary of the Apostolic... Read more
Council for Justice and Peace calls for a “new humanism”
On Saturday, Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, presented the Compendium of the Social... Read more
Spanish bishops: Vote on EU Constitution with informed conscience
As the February 20 date for the referendum on the EU Constitution looms, the Bishops Conference of Spain called on... Read more
Progress in Pius XII’s cause for beatification
In an interview with the Italian news agency APCOM, Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes... Read more
Nicaraguan lawmakers declare Archbishop of Managua “the Cardinal of peace”
The national assembly of Nicaragua decided this week to declare the Archbishop of Managua, Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, the... Read more
Bishops across Mexico express closeness and prayers for Pope John Paul
Bishops across Mexico offered up prayers to Our Lady of Guadalupe this week for the speedy recovery of Pope John... Read more
Task of seminaries is to provide authentic formation, says Venezuelan bishop
During a Mass celebrating the 80th anniversary of the St. Thomas Aquinas diocesan seminary, Bishop Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez... Read more
Pope hopes to preside at Angelus on Sunday
Holy See Press Office Director Joaquin Navarro-Valls told journalists today that the “state of the Holy Father’s health has improved.”... Read more
Archbishop Burke supports Terri Schiavo's parents in fight for life
The most effective means to fight abortion and other threats to life is prayer, said Archbishop Raymond Burke of St.... Read more
Archdiocese of Detroit puts brakes on reception honoring gay-outreach
According to the Archdiocese of Detroit, a celebration honoring a local nun and her outreach to gays has been forced... Read more
Phoenix Bishop says that scandal may return a healthy sense of sin
Speaking to a group of youth ministers in the Diocese of Phoenix in January, Bishop Thomas Olmsted said that, “popes... Read more
Holy See to issue document on dignity of marriage and annulments
The Vatican announced this week the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts will release a new document entitled “Dignitas connubii” on... Read more
Holy Father expresses grief over death of 101-year-old Cardinal Bafile
Upon learning of the death of 101-year-old Cardinal Corrado Bafile yesterday, the Holy Father sent a telegram to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,... Read more
