 Monday 15 September 2008
With much demand, World Youth Day 2008 will be releasing a pastoral DVD
collection available for sale from the end of September 2008. A
commemorative book will also be available for sale in mid November.
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 Monday 15 September 2008
Bishop Jorge Solórzano of Matagalpa has warned that the Church schools
in Nicaragua may be threatened with closure in the near future. The
state has announced its intention of cutting its subsidies, with the
result that school fees must inevitably increase to make up the
shortfall. This would mean that many families could no longer afford to
send their children to Catholic schools resulting in the possible
closure of many schools.
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 Friday 12 September 2008
Bishop Christopher Prowse, Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne,
today welcomed the news that Victoria’s State Parliament voted down the
euthanasia bill.
"By rejecting the proposal that assisted suicide is a legitimate way of
resolving the burdens of serious and terminal illness, Parliament
rejected death as a cure for our ills," Bishop Prowse said. "I hope and trust that our Parliament will also determine that the
deliberate destruction of an unborn child is a crime no human law can
claim to legitimise."
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 Wednesday 10 September 2008
Pope Benedict XVI has named Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of
Sydney, to be one of three delegate presidents for the world Synod of
Bishops on the Bible.
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 Wednesday 10 September 2008
Though debates about the
nature of terrorism are necessary, they should not blur the urgency of
addressing the needs of terrorist victims, the Holy See says.
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 Wednesday 10 September 2008
The president of the Indian episcopal conference says that the faith of Indian Christians is more important than their lives.
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 Tuesday 9 September 2008
For the first time in history, a Pope has sent a message to an Internet social networking site.
Pope Benedict XVI sent a note yesterday to the 35,000 people who are
members of Xt3.com, a site that was created to link up participants in
World Youth Day in Sydney, as well as past Youth Day pilgrims. Xt3
stands for Christ (Xt) in the third (3) millennium.
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 Tuesday 9 September 2008
Household names in the entertainment industry, Tottie Goldsmith
and Dylan Lewis, have worn their hearts on their canvas, so to speak,
for the sake of those in need and assisted by the Vinnies’ Soup Vans.
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 Friday 5 September 2008
Hurricane Gustav wrought a devastating blow to one of the countries
that is already among the world's poorest, reported Caritas-Haiti.
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 Friday 5 September 2008
After 100 years without a new
church, the Catholic Community of Lu Dong in the Diocese of Tong Zhou
in China celebrated the consecration of two new churches where the
faithful can now attend Mass and pray daily.
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Thursday 4 September 2008
Caritas local partners are continuing to deliver medical assistance,
sanitation, food, clean water and shelter to thousands of victims of
the Kosi River flood in Bihar.
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 Thursday 3 September 2008
United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon invited the president of Caritatis
Internationalis to attend a high-level meeting on how to better
overcome the global scourge of poverty.
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 Thursday 4 September 2008
Christians are called to stop being wasteful and remember that the
planet is everyone's home, says an official with the Italian bishops'
conference.
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Wednesday 3 September 2008
In an interview with
Vatican Radio, the Archbishop of Ranchi in India, Cardinal Telesforo
Placidus Toppo, said that the Catholic Church’s defense of the
sacredness of the human person and its opposition to the caste system
are what is fueling the violence against Christian minorities in India.
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 Tuesday 2 September 2008
The press office of the Holy See has released the prayer intentions of Pope Benedict for the month of September.
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 Tuesday 2 September 2008
French-Colombian
politician Ingrid Betancourt described her meeting with Pope Benedict XVI as
an "extraordinary experience."
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 Tuesday 2 September 2008
Fr Emmanuel Asi, secretary of the Catholic Bible Commission of Pakistan
and parish priest of a large parish in Lahore, has told the Catholic
charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that Christians in Pakistan are
living "in constant fear and peril".
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 Tuesday 2 September 2008
Pope
Benedict XVI is traveling to France in mid-September, making a four-day
visit that is loaded with events and charged with pastoral challenges.
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 Tuesday 2 September 2008
The Vatican will begin installing some 2,400 solar panels in late
September, the first of several projects aimed at exploiting renewable
energy resources in the tiny city-state.
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Monday 1 September 2008
By John Pontifex and John Newton
Christians in India have demanded the immediate dismissal of the Orissa
state government following the second spate of attacks on Christians in
eight months.
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