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 [...]

Mans Darkened Reason

Tertium Quid – Vol. 1, Issue 3 – By Patrick O’Meara – May 24, 2010
Financial reform and individual responsibility
With the Financial Reform bill passing the senate it seems appropriate to frame the debate with a diagnosis of causal relationships for the financial crisis that go beyond the merely technical. Major banks and financial services companies [...]

Prayer, Conversion Triumph Over Life’s Threats, Calamities, Pope says

Catholic News Service – By Carol Glatz – May 19, 2010
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A life dedicated to prayer, penitence, and conversion will overcome the threats, dangers and horrors that mark human history, Pope Benedict XVI said.
Our Lady of Fatima invites everyone to trust in God, experience his grace and “fall in love with him [...]

Charity is Principal Strength and Guide of the Church

Vatican Information Service – May 14, 2010
VATICAN CITY, 13 MAY 2010 (VIS) – At 5 p.m. today Benedict XVI went to the Church of the Blessed Trinity, part of the shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, where he met with representatives from social pastoral care organizations. Along with the Catholic groups present, other national institutions [...]

In Portuguese Capital, Pope Urges Catholics to Re-evangelize

Catholic News Service – By John Thavis – May 11, 2010
LISBON, Portugal (CNS) — At a Mass for more than 100,000 people in Portugal, Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholics to re-evangelize society by witnessing the joy and hope of the Gospel in every sector of contemporary life.
“Today’s pastoral priority is to make each Christian man [...]

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 [...]

Pope to Convey Message of Hope to Crisis-hit Europeans on Portugal Trip

Washington Examiner – By Barry Hatton (AP) – May 10, 2010
LISBON, PORTUGAL — Pope Benedict XVI will speak about the economic crisis during his four-day trip to Portugal this week, telling Europeans to seek solace in their faith, a senior church official said Monday.
The pontiff intends to deliver a message that “the joy of [...]

Caritas In Veritate Guides Academy for Social Sciences

Vatican Information Service – May 5, 2010
VATICAN CITY, 5 MAY 2010 (VIS) – Today in the Holy See Press Office Mary Ann Glendon, president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, presented a summary of the academy’s sixteenth plenary assembly which took place in the Vatican’s Casina Pio IV from 30 April to 4 May [...]

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 [...]

Economic Life Should Be Oriented to the Common Good

Vatican Information Service – April 30, 2010
VATICAN CITY, 30 APR 2010 (VIS) – The Holy Father today received participants in the sixteenth plenary assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, which is meeting between 30 April and 4 May to discuss the world economic crisis in the light of the ethical principles enshrined in [...]

Pope: There is No Charity Without Life in Christ

Archbishop Kurtz: He’s ‘Our Gifted Shepherd’

National Catholic Register — By Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz — April 11, 2010
Archbishop Kurtz is the archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky, which was established as the Diocese of Bardstown in 1808 along with the dioceses of Boston, New York and Philadelphia, out of the territory of the Baltimore Diocese, the first Catholic diocese in the United [...]

Pope Benedict XVI Celebrates 83rd Birthday

American Papist/CatholicVoteAction.org — April 16, 2010
AD MULTOS GLORIOSQUE ANNOS!
This day, eighty-three years ago in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria, the future Holy Father was born.
Today let us pray for the Holy Father in a special way. The Cardinal Newman Society is close to its goal of 1,000,000 prayers pledged for the Holy Father by the fifth [...]

Pope’s Encyclical Uses Love as Framework for Justice, Archbishop says

Catholic News Service – March 12, 2010
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical “Caritas in Veritate” is not a political program, but rather a guideline for ethical principles that should be put into action, a German archbishop told an audience at the University of Notre Dame.
Archbishop Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising said [...]

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 [...]

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