(March 9, 2010) An American medical charity has warned that thousands of Burmese refugees in Bangladesh are facing starvation. Physicians for Human ...»
(March 9, 2010) As Catholics commemorate the death of Jesus on Good Friday, they also are asked to remember the Christians who still live in the land where Jesus lived and rose from the dead. In a letter to the world's bishops, urging them to support the annual collection for the Holy Land, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri said all Catholics share the responsibility of the Christians in the Holy Land ...»
(March 9, 2010) The Holy See has criticized the approach of measuring women’s advancement primarily in terms of sexual and reproductive rights rather than on political, economic and social rights. Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Holy See's permanent observer at the United Nations in New York, affirmed this on the 100th International Women’s Day, Monday. He was ...»
(March 9, 2010) A course started in the Vatican on Monday to teach young priests how to correctly administer the sacrament of confession. The major penitentiary, Archbishop Fortunato Baldelli, is leading the week-long course, in which "moral and canonical subjects will be discussed related to the ministry of penance, above all that of confession," a statement said. During the course, ...»
(March 8, 2010) Pope Benedict XVI affirmed on Sunday that God is good and cannot will evil, though in his plan of love, he sometimes allows his children to be tried through suffering to lead them to a greater good. The Pope drew lessons on the mystery of suffering from Sunday’s Gospel when he addressed those gathered in St. Peter's Square to pray the midday “Angelus” with him. ...»
(March 8, 2010) Pope Benedict visited the Roman parish of San Giovanni della Croce early Sunday morning and told the faithful that there is a need to change mentalities, so as to see laypeople as co-responsible for the Church, not merely as collaborators of the clergy. The Pope, who is the Bishop of Rome, celebrated Sunday Mass for the parishioners and delivered a homily. He commended the ...»
