Pope Benedict said on Wednesday that during the Pauline Year, he will dedicate his weekly General Audiences to the Apostle of the Gentiles. We have this report... Greeting Pilgrims in the Paul VI Audience hall, Pope Benedict announced a new

A Palestinian driving a construction vehicle went on a deadly rampage on a busy Jerusalem street today, plowing into a string of vehicles and pedestrians killing three people and wounding 45 others.

Pope Benedict will remain in his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo until he leaves for Australia for World Youth Day on July 12th. The summer residence, located 30 kilometre southeast of Rome, has been used off and on by the

A state of emergency has been declared in the central Asian country of Mongolia, after five people died and more than 300 others were injured in a riot in the capital, Ulaanbator, over alleged fraud in a weekend election. Chris

One of the 40 Metropolitan Archbishops to receive the pallium from Pope Benedict on Sunday was the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fouad Twal. Patriarch Twal is a native of Jordan, and was named coadjutor archbishop of Jerusalem in 2005. He assumed

Paul was able to appeal to these currents of thought in his presentation of the Good News. Against this broad cultural background, Paul developed his teaching, which we will explore in the catecheses of this Pauline Year. * * *

The penalties callously doled out to Sister Louise Lears - a woman who has dedicated her entire life to serve the Church - is a prime example of the way women are often wrongly treated by the Catholic hierarchy, where

†If the school is bending over backward to accommodate teen mothers and encouraging the promiscuity that leads to it, these girls would have no choice but to assume that premarital sex and motherhood are acceptable social norms,†the Family

The Illinois senator not only challenges the long-held tacit alliance between evangelicals and the Republican Party, but is doing so with some success, according to a well-known emergent leader.

In determining the narrow fact and legal issues properly before it, the court has found that harassment has occurred as that term is defined in the Minnesota statute," Robertson wrote.

Last week, pro-family groups finally saw their prayers answered when Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi re-introduced the Federal Marriage Act in the Senate for the first time since it stalled in the House nearly two years ago.

Rachid Mohammed Seghir, 40, and Jammal Dahmani, 36, were sentenced for "distributing documents that aimed at weakening the faith of Muslims," lawyer Khelloudja Khalfoun said.

A service at Westminster Abbey has been held to mark the 60th anniversary of the National Health Service. During the event the Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid tribute describing it as the "noblest manifestation of the character of our country".

Civil libertarians are infuriated at special regulations coming into force for the upcoming Catholic World Youth Day event in Sydney, Australia, where Pope Benedict XVI will be the guest of honour.

Students need to find their weaknesses and take them to the Lord, Dr. Michael Barnes, professor of health science and director of the public health masters program at BYU, told students Tuesday in a university Devotional.

Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell says that he was "violently ejected" from a major London evangelical church after seeking to mount a protest against a hardline Anglican group.

The new Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FOCA) claims to be orthodox and trdaitional. David Wood looks at their founding document and sees something rather different.

In this teaching series, the deception of the "Once Saved Always Saved" doctrine and its teachers are exposed in the light of Scripture. With over seven hours of teaching, this series will give its listeners a clear, Biblical understanding of

The Lord has given every man and woman the right to hear the proclamation that Jesus Christ "loved me and gave himself for me" (Gal 2:20). Corresponding to this right is the duty to evangelise: "For I preach the Gospel,

Warsaw (Agenzia Fides)- "To we all wonder about the future, the future of our situation, of ourselves, our families the future of Poland, Europe, the whole world" Archbishop Henryk Hoser, of Warsaw-Praga said in his homily during the solemn Mass