The Australian episcopal conference is hoping to bring fallen-away Catholics back to the Church.
A pastoral plan to reach out to Catholics who no longer practice their faith, and to those Catholics who never felt identified with the Church, is one of the fruits of the bishops’ assembly, which concluded today in Sydney.
The strategy will include [...]

Benedict XVI will visit two Marian shrines during a weekend trip to Savona and Genoa, Italy.
The Vatican press office released today the schedule for the Pope’s May 17-18 pastoral visit.
The Holy Father will depart from Ciampino Airport on Saturday, May 17, at 3:30 p.m. and will land an hour later at Christopher Columbus Airport of [...]

Insights From Father Fessio, a Former Student
By Carrie Gress
While many Americans have a new take on the personality of Benedict XVI after his U.S. trip, Father Joseph Fessio says the Pope revealed nothing new.
Father Fessio, 69, a Jesuit who was a student under then Father Joseph Ratzinger in Regensburg, Germany, in the 1970s, spoke with [...]

Benedict XVI received today a progress report on the preparation of the continental mission in Latin America, called for by the bishops’ meeting that he inaugurated in Brazil a year ago.
The Pope began the 5th General Conference of the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, held near the shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida [...]

  Today, the Holy See’s Press Office publicized the schedule for Benedict XVI’s pastoral visit to Savona and Genoa (Italy) that will take place this 17-18 May.
 The Pope will depart from Ciampino Airport on Saturday, 17 May, at 3:30pm and will land an hour later at Christopher Columbus Airport of Genoa-Sestri where he will be [...]

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