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Pope explains St. Paul's approach to justification by faith

Vatican, Nov 19 2008 (CWN) - Pope Benedict XVI continued his series of Wednesday talks on the influence of St. Paul at his general audience on November 19, concentrating on the Apostle's approach to the question of justification. St. Paul, the Holy Father observed, devoted ...

Viet police stand by as mob ransacks Hanoi chapel

Hanoi, Nov 17 2008 (CWN) - A Redemptorist monastery in Hanoi that has been the focus of a struggle between Catholic activists and government officials was attacked by a mob on Saturday night, November 15. Rather than trying to protect the monastery, police did their best to ...

God's judgment should prompt apostolic action, not fear, Pope tells audience

Vatican, Nov 17 2008 (CWN) - Faithful Christians should be "vigilant and industrious while awaiting the return of the Lord Jesus at the end of time," Pope Benedict XVI told his midday audience on Sunday, November 16. The Holy Father said that the parable of the talents, ...

Why Christians long for the Second Coming: Pope explains

Vatican, Nov 12 2008 (CWN) - Christians should not long for the end of the world, Pope Benedict XVI told his regular weekly audience on November 12. But the faithful should pray for the return of Jesus-- even knowing that his Second Coming presages the end of the world-- ...

Analysis: Cardinal George sees America overcoming racism but not anti-Catholicism

Baltimore, Nov 11 2008 (CWN) - In his address yesterday to the fall meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Cardinal Francis George said that the election of Sen. Barack Obama is a sign of the progress American society has made against racism but ...

Pope mourns Kristallnacht victims, condemns present-day atrocities in Congo

Vatican, Nov 10 2008 (CWN) - Pope Benedict XVI recalled the painful memory of Kristallnacht at his midday on November 9, as the world marked the 70th anniversary of the mob violence that inaugurated the Nazi campaign against European Jews. "Even today I suffer" from the ...

See Pius XII as precursor of Vatican II, Pope Benedict suggests

Vatican, Nov 10 2008 (CWN) - Pope Benedict XVI has offered an unusual perspective on the teaching of Pope Pius XII, accentuating the influence of that Pontiff on the Second Vatican Council. Speaking on November 8 to participants in a symposium on the teaching of Pope Pius ...

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News Briefs

Pro-abortion Catholic to head Dept. of Health and Human Services

11/20 President-elect Barack Obama yesterday selected former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota to become the next Secretary of ...

188 Japanese martyrs to be beatified in Nagasaki

11/20 Four priests and 184 lay faithful, including children, who suffered martyrdom in a wave of persecution that began in 1603, will be ...

Kerala: Nun, 2 priests arrested for 1992 murder; one ministered in NY, Michigan

11/20 Police arrested two priests and a nun yesterday in connection with the 1992 murder of a 21-year-old nun. The two priests, Father James ...

L'Osservatore Romano making new waves in Rome

11/20 The official Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, has been raising eyebrows among curial officials under the leadership of a ...

Nairobi cardinal condemns pro-abortion legislation

11/20 Cardinal John Njue of Nairobi led a demonstration on Saturday against legislation that would legalize abortion in Kenya. In a homily ...

Sainthood cause begins for Father Peyton

11/20 Archbishop Edwin O’Brien of Baltimore will preside today over the opening session of the sainthood cause of Father Patrick Peyton. The ...

Syro-Malabar bishop blasts Vatican, Latin Rite bishops

11/20 Accusing Latin Rite bishops of ‘ecclesiastical colonization,’ Bishop Gregory Karotemprel, CMI, who has led the Syro-Malabar Diocese of ...

Reconsider approach to Confirmation, Australian bishop suggests

11/20 An Australian bishop has called for a fresh discussion of the Church's approach to the sacrament of Confirmation, saying that in practice ...

Monasteries are powerful reminders of Christian vocation, Pope says

11/20 Pope Benedict XVI met on November 20 with members of the Congregation for Religious, which had just concluded a plenary meeting devoted to ...

Sudan's bishops fear breakdown of peace agreement

11/20 The Catholic bishops of Sudan are concerned that the country's peace accord is "losing its strength," largely because of the slow progress ...

Russia returns stained glass to historic German church

11/20 Russia on Monday completed the return of 117 stained glass window panels to the historic Marienkirche in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany. ...

Cyprus Sant’Egidio meeting concludes with appeal for peace

11/19 The annual International Meeting of Prayer for Peace, sponsored by the Community of Sant’Egidio, concluded yesterday in the Cypriot ...

Al Qaida to Iraqi Christians: leave or die

11/19 An Iraqi Islamic group with ties to Al Qaida has issued a message to the Christians living in Baghdad, demanding that they "leave Iraq ...

Time reports: apart from life issues, Vatican views Obama as improvement

11/19 ‘Beyond bioethics, Vatican officials generally view the incoming Administration’s economic and foreign policies as a marked improvement ...

Indian nun testifies in rape case; will not return to Orissa for prosecution

11/19 An Indian nun who was raped by members of a Hindu mob in the state of Orissa in August has given a deposition to investigators, but ...

Poll: Catholics support immigration reform, oppose US-Mexico border wall

11/19 A Zogby poll has found that 69% of Catholics in the United States support an immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship for ...

Cardinal Bertone writes book on globalization

11/19 Libreria Editrice Vaticana, the Vatican’s publishing house, has published a new work by Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. The ...

Vatican opens bookstore outside St. Peter’s Square

11/19 Libreria Editrice Vaticana, L’Osservatore Romano’s photographic service, and the Vatican’s Numistatic Office have opened the Pope ...

Cardinal Wyszynski proposed Wojtyla's name at 1978 conclave, historian reports

11/19 The late Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, the powerful primate of Poland, declined to have his name proposed for the papacy during the conclave ...

Russian prosecutors warn Newsweek not to insult Muslims

11/19 The Moscow Prosecutor’s Office warned the Russian edition of Newsweek yesterday not to publish articles that are ‘insulting or ...

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