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 Friday 15 August 2008
On the back of the amazing Days in the Dioceses and World Youth Day
experience Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart recently announced the
creation of a new Archdiocesan Office for Youth, with a core vision of
ensuring that all young Catholics are provided with as many
opportunities for nourishing their faith and participating in their
Church.
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 Friday 15 August 2008
The Secretary of the
Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant
People, Msgr. Agostino Marchetto, announced plans for a Continental
Conference in October, in Bogotá, Colombia, to discuss the pastoral
care for roadways; faced with the incessant increase of danger and
traffic accidents.
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 Thursday 14 April 2008
In Wednesday's general audience, celebrated in Castel Gandolfo, Pope
Benedict XVI spoke about St Teresa Benedict of the Cross, also known
as St Edith Stein, and St Maximilian Mary Kolbe, whose feast days the
Church celebrates in August.
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 Thursday 14 August 2008
Pope Benedict XVI is marking the launch of a continent-wide mission in
Latin America by giving the national Churches a special picture of
Christ.
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 Wednesday 13 August 2008
The president of the College of Catholic Lawyers in Mexico, Armando
Martinez, warned this week that implementing the death penalty in the
country would constitute a step backwards in the area of human rights
and said a better alternative would be to impose life sentences.
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 Wednesday 13 August 2008
Archbishop Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato, Philippines, has urged
government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front peace negotiators to stop
the fighting that has displaced thousands of villagers in the southern
Philippines.
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 Wednesday 13 August 2008
As soon as a political solution is found in Zimbabwe, work on
reconciliation should begin immediately, said a US bishop who had just
concluded a visit to the troubled country.
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 Tuesday 12 August 2008
The British government has agreed to allow the exhumation of the body
of a 19th-century cardinal whose cause for sainthood widely is expected
to progress soon to beatification.
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 Tuesday 12 July 2008
Pope Benedict XVI appealed for an immediate end to military operations in Georgia and its breakaway province of South Ossetia.
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 Monday 11 August 2008
Reflecting on the joy of the young people at last month’s World Youth
Day in Sydney, Australia, Pope Benedict encouraged his audience to
renew their relationship with God, dedicating time to silent prayer.
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 Monday 11 August 2008
Coadjutor Bishop John Tong Hon of Hong Kong explained this week why he
decided to accept "with ambivalent sentiments" the invitation of the
Chinese government to participate in the opening ceremonies of the
Olympic Games in Beijing. From the bishop’s perspective, the
persecution of Catholics by the government is mixed with the joy of
having the country host the event.
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 Monday 11 August 2008
The president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE), Cardinal
Antonio Maria Rouco Varela explained that the next World Youth Day,
scheduled to take place in 2011, will require the people of Madrid to
have a strong "commitment to apostolic character."
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 Friday 8 August 2008
Just five weeks after being
installed as the new Patriarch of the Latin Church in Jerusalem, His
Beatitude Fouad Twal described his experience to CNA as the "top of
happiness." At the same time, he also said that the complex conflict in
the Holy Land requires courageous leaders to forge a new mentality of
peace in the region, leaders he is still waiting for.
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 Friday 8 August 2008
Speaking from the town of Oies, the birthplace of a canonized Italian
missionary to China, Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday said China is growing
in international importance but must also "open up" to Christ.
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 Thursday 7 August 2008
During a gathering with more than 400 priests in the Italian
region of Tirol on Wednesday, the feast of the Transfiguration of
Jesus, Pope Benedict XVI said Christianity has always encouraged care
for the environment based on the conversion of the hu
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 Thursday 7 August 2008
In order to mark the 30th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s death on 6
August, L’Osservatore Romano is publishing an article describing the
true personality of the Pontiff, debunking myths about his supposed
sadness and uncertainty portrayed in some media.
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 Wednesday 6 August 2008
Pope Benedict XVI is continuing to vacation with his brother in the
northern Italian town of Bressanone, where he is reportedly drafting a
new encyclical.
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 Tuesday 5 August 2008
Following the recent arrest of the internationally wanted former
Bosnian Serb leader and suspected war criminal, Radovan Karadzic,
Bishop Franjo Komarica of Banja Luka, Bosnia has called on all
Christians "to pray for all those whose hands are stained by the
terrible cruelties committed during the recent wars in the former
Yugoslavia".
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Tuesday 5 August 2008
After delivering his traditional Angelus address to thousands of the
faithful on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI told the crowd that he hopes the
Beijing Olympics will provide a good example of coexistence, while
respecting human dignity.
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Tuesday 5 August 2008
Before the recitation of the Angelus on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI spoke
about his predecessor Paul VI. Recounting the Pontiff who concluded the
Second Vatican Council, the Holy Father encouraged his audience to
remain faithful to Pope Paul’s teaching and witness of holiness.
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