Holy Spirit Gives Church Authority to Evangelize, Pope Explains

Catholic News Agency — May 21, 2010
Vatican City, May 21, 2010 (CNA/EWTN News) — “The conversion of the world to Christ is not something we produce, but something given to us,” the Holy Father told representatives of the Pontifical Mission Societies on Friday morning. Evangelization, he underscored, is reliant on the work of the Holy [...]

Christ Assures Us Nothing Will Destroy the Church, Pope states

Catholic News Agency – May 11, 2010
Lisbon, Portugal, May 11, 2010 (CNA/EWTN News) – During his apostolic visit to Portugal, the Holy Father presided over Mass in Lisbon’s Palace Square on Tuesday evening. Despite negative media attention over sexual abuse that has dogged the Catholic Church in recent weeks, the Pope assured the crowd of [...]

Suffering Shown in Shroud of Turin Gives Us Hope, Pope Benedict Teaches

Catholic News Agency — May 2, 2010
Turin, Italy, May 2, 2010 (CNA/EWTN News).- The Holy Father celebrated Mass Sunday morning in St. Charles Square in Turin. During his homily, he taught about the new commandment of Christ and told how Christ’s passion, witnessed in the Shroud of Turin, gives us hope.
Pope Benedict arrived at Turin [...]

Vatican Prefect says Religion in Schools is the Tool for Understanding Others

Catholic News Agency – April 13, 2010
Vatican City, Apr 13, 2010 / (CNA) – Last week at the 15th European Forum for the Teaching of Religion, the prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski described the importance of teaching religion in schools as a “privileged tool for understanding and accepting others.”
According to [...]

Church’s Mission is to Announce God’s Merciful Love, Teaches Pope Benedict

Catholic News Agency – April 11, 2010
Vatican City, Apr 11, 2010 / (CNA/EWTN News) – The Holy Father welcomed from the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo, focusing his address before the Marian prayer on Sunday’s reading from the Gospel of John. In his words, he acknowledged the value of Thomas’ doubt for Christians today and [...]

Catholics in U.S. Donate Nearly $60 Million to Haiti Relief Effort

Catholic News Agency – April 9, 2010
Washington D.C., Apr 9, 2010 / (CNA) – A collection initiated in January by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to help victims of the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti has raised nearly $60 million dollars to date.
Since Cardinal Francis George and Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York made [...]

Pope Benedict exhorts all Christians to proclaim ‘He is Risen!’

Catholic News Agency – April 7, 2010
Vatican City, Apr 7, 2010 / (CNA/EWTN News) – “Christ is truly risen!” exclaimed the Holy Father again from St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday. The Pope spoke to pilgrims at the General Audience about the extraordinary event of Easter and the call for all Christians to be inspired in [...]

Jesus is Justice in Person, Declares Benedict XVI at Angelus

Catholic News Agency — March 21, 2010
Vatican City, Mar 21, 2010 / (CNA/EWTN News) — The Holy Father prayed the Angelus with the faithful in St. Peter’s Square today, their numbers increased by pilgrims taking advantage of a long weekend due to the Solemnity of St. Joseph. On the Fifth Sunday of Lent, he offered [...]

Archdiocese of Boston Sees Significant Financial Recovery for Catholic Appeal

Catholic News Agency – March 9, 2010
Boston, Mass., Mar 9, 2010 / (CNA) – The Archdiocese of Boston has launched its 2010 Catholic Appeal, with recent figures indicating significant financial recovery since Cardinal Seán O’Malley took over the leadership of the archdiocese in 2003.
“The Archdiocese is blessed by the continued generosity of our parishioners and [...]

Be Living Models of the Good Samaritan, Benedict XVI Encourages Volunteers

Catholic News Agency — March 6, 2010
Vatican City, Mar 6, 2010 / (CNA/EWTN News) — The Holy Father met with thousands of members of the Italian Civil Protection Service on Saturday in the Paul VI Hall. He commended their voluntary service in protection of the common good and the dignity of man, comparing their work [...]

State is Not Source and Beginning of Ethics, Pope tells Pontifical Academy for Life

Catholic News Agency – February 14, 2010
Vatican City, Feb 14, 2010 / (CNA) – On Saturday Pope Benedict XVI addressed members of the Pontifical Academy for Life on the occasion of their general assembly. He emphasized to the group that human dignity must be protected as an “inalienable right” and that ethical decisions cannot be [...]

Pope Extols St. Anthony of Padua’s Insights on Prayer

Catholic News Agency – February 10, 2010
Vatican City, Feb 10, 2010 / (CNA) – In Wednesday’s General Audience, Pope Benedict XVI spoke on the life and history of “one of the most popular saints of the Catholic Church,” St. Anthony of Padua, saying that his definition of prayer as “a relationship of love” is one [...]

Pope Addresses Italian Power Company on Rethinking the Economy

Catholic News Agency — February 6, 2010
Vatican City, Feb 6, 2010 / (CNA) — On Saturday at the Apostolic Palace, Pope Benedict met in audience with a group from a local Italian municipal agency. Speaking with them, but also to the international community, Holy Father stressed the importance of “social responsibility” in the business environment [...]

Haiti Quake Shows Need for Christ’s Resurrection, Bishop Wenski Writes

Catholic News Agency – January 19, 2010
Orlando, Fla., Jan 19, 2010 / (CNA) – The disastrous earthquake in Haiti shows that this world is a fallen “valley of tears” and is not a particular judgment on the Haitian people, Bishop Thomas Wenski of Orlando, Florida wrote on Sunday. He said such a crisis calls to [...]

Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience

Catholic News Agency — December 7, 2009
Denver, Colo., Dec 7, 2009 / (CNA) — In an exclusive interview with Catholic News Agency, Archbishop of Denver Charles J. Chaput has explained his reasons for signing the Manhattan Declaration. He said the Declaration should “galvanize” Christians and others in defense of pro-life issues, the nature of marriage [...]

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