MEMORIES OF POPE JOHN PAUL : On the third anniversary of his death we talk to a Polish editor who knew him and a theology professor who looks back at the late pope's achievements...
The first-ever World Apostolic Congress on the Divine Mercy opened on Wednesday in Rome. One of the major promotors of the Congress is the Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Schoenborn. He spoke with us ahead of the opening...
US President George W. Bush has urged for more troops to be sent to Afghanistan and called for the expansion of NATO at it's summit today in Bucharest. Kelsea Brennan-Wessels reports...
Zimbabwe's state-owned newspaper today predicted a runoff in the first official admission that President Robert Mugabe has failed to win re-election. The opposition insists it won an outright victory, and today threatened to publish its own figures if full results
A Marian Prayer vigil took place in the Vatican Wednesday evening to mark the 3rd anniversary of the passing of Pope John Paul II. We have this report...
The Pontifical Council for Family has begun its plenary assembly, this year focusing on the role of grandparents in family life. We spoke to assembly delegate Timothy O' Donnell president of Christendom College in the United States...
The World Apostolic Congress on Mercy is in its second day today focusing on Mercy as the Church's treasure. Chris Altieri spoke with Emer McCarthy, who attended the sessions...
Pope Benedict met today with members of the Antilles Episcopal Conference who are in Rome on their ad alimina visits. Although members of the conference come from a variety of cultures, and speak English, French and Dutch, they face many
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has lost control of the country's parliament for the first time since taking power 28 years ago. The Information Officer of the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference, Father Chris Townsend, says the parliamentary results are a
Preparations continue ahead of Pope Benedict XVI pastoral visit to the United States later this month. The archbishop of Washington DC, the capital and one of the cities that will host the Holy Father, Archbishop Donald Wuerl spoke with us
The date of April 2nd remains impressed on the memory of the Church as the day that the servant of God Pope John Paul II departed from this world and today too, just as three years ago, not much time
In the light of merciful Jesus we are invited to treasure the gift of grace of Easter we have just celebrated. Faith in the Risen Lord was renewed especially in those who took to heart the penitential itinerary of Lent
Repeated episodes on various continents, India especially, would seem to indicate that the virus of Christian-phobia has not yet been eradicated, said Redemptorist priest Fr Desmond de Sousa of Goa, in an analysis published by the Asian Catholic news agency
