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Italian journalist publishes book of Vatican leaks
Rome, Italy, May 18, 2012 / 10:39 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi reveals private Vatican correspondence in a new book containing a collection of letters titled, "Sua Santita (His Holiness)."
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Trust Pope's judgment on SSPX deal, senior rabbi says
Rome, Italy, May 18, 2012 / 07:33 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
A leading American rabbi and Holocaust refugee says people should trust Pope Benedict's judgment when it comes to the Church possibly readmitting the Society of St. Pius X, which has a bishop who denied the scale of the Holocaust.
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Pope praying for renewal of US female religious life
Vatican City, May 18, 2012 / 05:22 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Pope Benedict XVI says he is praying that a renewal of female religious life in the United States will "recapture a sense of the sublime dignity and beauty of the consecrated life."
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Pope says immigrants could revitalize US Church
Vatican City, May 18, 2012 / 03:05 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Pope Benedict XVI says that Catholic immigrants to the United States could play a crucial role in the renewal of the Church and society.
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Bishop Mansour: Billy Graham was right on evangelization essentials
Rome, Italy, May 17, 2012 / 06:21 pm (EWTN News).-
Maronite Catholic Bishop Gregory John Mansour believes that Billy Graham can teach the Catholic Church a few things about the New Evangelization.
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Special bell, stone serve as Eucharistic Congress symbols
Dublin, Ireland, May 17, 2012 / 03:06 am (EWTN News).-
Preparations for the International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin include separate tours for a bell that will call pilgrims together and a stone with an engraved prayer for abuse victims.
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Vatican splits negotiations with Pius X Society
Vatican City, May 16, 2012 / 11:26 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has announced it will hold separate talks with the superior general of the breakaway traditionalist Society of St. Pius X and each of its three other bishops to try and acheive reconciliation.
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FOCUS considers expanding mission to Europe
Rome, Italy, May 16, 2012 / 05:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
FOCUS campus ministry is considering taking their successful brand of youth apostolate to Europe in order to meet the challenge of evangelizing formerly Christian societies.
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Pope outlines power of the Holy Spirit in prayer
Vatican City, May 16, 2012 / 04:58 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Pope Benedict XVI says Christians should avail themselves to the Holy Spirit in prayer particularly when they cannot find the words or inspiration to pray.
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Young activists swell the ranks of Canada's 15th March for Life
Ottawa, Canada, May 15, 2012 / 12:03 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Canada's 15th annual National March for Life has broken attendance records by a dramatic margin, due in part to rising youth participation in the country's pro-life movement.
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Fashion company makes amends for Pope-imam 'kissing' ad
Vatican City, May 15, 2012 / 06:38 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
An Italian fashion company has settled a legal conflict with the Vatican, which arose in 2011 after an ad campaign that featured digitally manipulated images of the Pope kissing a Muslim cleric.
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Prominent Legion priest admits fathering child, issues apology
Rome, Italy, May 15, 2012 / 01:59 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Father Thomas Williams, one of the most high-profile American members of the Legion of Christ, is leaving public ministry after admitting he fathered a child.
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New bishop appointed to lead troubled Toowoomba diocese
Vatican City, May 14, 2012 / 12:21 pm (EWTN News).-
Pope Benedict XVI has named Monsignor Robert McGuckin to lead the Diocese of Toowoomba, Australia one year after the previous bishop was removed for dissenting from Catholic teaching and practice.
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US clinches World Cup for seminarians
Rome, Italy, May 14, 2012 / 02:21 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Seminarians from the Pontifical North American College in Rome have won the clerical equivalent of soccer's World Cup for the first time ever.
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Cardinal says Europe's identity comes from Christianity
Rome, Italy, May 14, 2012 / 01:03 pm (EWTN News).-
The president of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences, Cardinal Peter Erdo, said the rich cultural identity of Europe is rooted in Christianity.
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Pope calls on Catholics to take part in new Renaissance
Florence, Italy, May 13, 2012 / 12:51 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Pope Benedict XVI went to the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance to call upon every Catholic to once again play a full part in renewing today's culture.
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Young, 'universal' turnout for Rome's first-ever March for Life
Rome, Italy, May 13, 2012 / 07:19 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Nearly 7,000 pro-life advocates marched from Rome's Colosseum to St. Peter's Square on Sunday for the city's inaugural March for Life.
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Pope meets United States' newest and tallest bishop
Rome, Italy, May 13, 2012 / 05:04 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Pope Benedict recently welcomed Bishop-designate Gregory L. Parkes of
Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida the newest and the tallest member of the U.S.
episcopate.
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Pope to create Australian ordinariate for Anglicans
Vatican City, May 11, 2012 / 05:45 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Pope Benedict XVI will continue the expansion of the new Catholic Church structure created for former Anglicans by launching an ordinariate for Australia on June 15.
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Dublin archbishop: Eucharistic Congress a time for renewal
Vatican City, May 11, 2012 / 05:01 am (EWTN News).-
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin hopes that the upcoming International Eucharistic Congress will be a time of "renewal and reconciliation" that will help heal the Irish Catholic Church's "unhealthy divisions" through the power of the Eucharist.
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