Is the Love Affair Here to Stay?
By Teresa Tomeo
In watching and reading various media outlets days before the Holy Father arrived for his historic U.S visit last month to Washington D.C. and New York City, one could have easily gotten the impression that it was going to be nothing but more of the same media [...]

Votes in British Parliament this week did not settle the issues surrounding human fertilization and embryology, affirmed the archbishop of Westminster, who called for two practical steps to be taken next.
In a column today in the Daily Telegraph, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor asked if “the conscience of the nation at ease with itself,” even if the [...]

John Baptist Rossi was born in 1698 in a village near Genoa, Italy. His family loved him. They were proud when a wealthy couple visiting their town offered to educate him. His parents knew the couple and trusted them. John was happy to be able to go to their house in Genoa because then he [...]

Life without God isn’t freer, Benedict XVI says, discrediting the idea that the Church’s commandments are a constraint.
The Pope affirmed this in a message made public Thursday for the 97th “Deutscher Katholikentag” ecclesial meeting. The event, organized by German laity, gathered some 500,000 people in Osnabruck. It runs through Sunday.Commenting on the theme chosen for [...]

  The Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff today announced four beatification ceremonies due to take place over coming days:
  Marta Wiecka, virgin, Polish professed sister of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. At 11 a.m. on Saturday 24 May in Lviv, Ukraine.
  Servant of God Maria Giuseppina di Gesu [...]

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