http://www.catholicculture.org/news/ CWN provides reliable world news and commentary from a Catholic perspective, availble exclusively at CatholicCulture.org. en-us http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3450 Pope Benedict XVI has issued an appeal to the leaders of the G8 nations to attack the root causes of world poverty. In their meetings, he said, the leaders of the world's most powerful ... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:00:15 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3449 In the final days before a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and President Barack Obama, the White House has launched what journalist John Allen describes as a "charm offensive" in Rome, ... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:47:04 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3451 The Catholic bishops of Honduras have urged the people of that country "to overcome emotional reactions and to seek the truth" in the midst of a political crisis that began with the ouster ... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:25:50 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3440 At least 8 people were killed (by the latest count), and 30 injured, by a bomb that exploded during Sunday Mass at the Immaculate Conception cathedral in Cotabato City. Archbishop Orlando ... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:27:09 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3441 Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has told Italian reporters that his government hopes to establish full diplomatic relations with the Holy See. Although Moscow and the Vatican do exchange ... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:35:08 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3444 Counselors who work with victims of sexual abuse in Ireland have asked for a delay in the public release of a new report on the handling of abuse cases by the Dublin archdiocese. The ... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:49:36 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3452 The Vatican's financial accounts for 2008 show a deficit of �911,514 (about $1.27 million) for the operations of the Holy See, and a �15 million ($20.8 million) deficit for the Vatican ... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:36:32 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3443 Vatican Radio is selling commercial spots for the first time ever. The first advertisements will be for Enel, an Italian utility ... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:44:50 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3445 Three volunteer workers who complained about indirect abortion referrals at a crisis-pregnancy agency operated under the aegis of the Irish hierarchy have won complete vindication. The ... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:58:44 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3446 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has denied that he is putting political pressure on Pope Benedict XVI by urging the Pontiff to proceed quickly with the canonization of Blessed Mary ... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:03:15 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3448 At his Angelus audience on July 5, Pope Benedict XVI reminded the faithful that the first Sunday in July has traditionally been a time for devotions to the Most Precious Blood of Christ. ... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:35:26 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3455 Meeting on July 6 with a new ambassador from Haiti to the Holy See, Pope Benedict XVI said that "signs of hope are not lacking" despite the enduring poverty of the Caribbean nation. He ... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:06:19 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3442 Pope Benedict XVI has made another shift in Vatican personnel, appointing Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi-- who has been serving as secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace-- to ... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:42:48 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3447 Speaking on July 4 to participants in a seminar on fostering priestly and religious vocations, Pope Benedict XVI urged them to be "sowers of trust and hope." The Pope explained that young ... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:31:25 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3454 Pope Benedict XVI presided at a Vespers service on Saturday evening, July 4, to reopen the Pauline Chapel of the apostolic palace, which had been closed by a renovation project for 7 ... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:02:47 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3453 Here's an example of a report that could easily mislead readers: Citing an analyst for the Vatican Museums, UPI runs a report suggesting that the Vatican is not sure whether the ... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:59:21 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3456 To provide background and context for readers as they await the release of Pope Benedict's social encyclical, Michael Novak discusses the free-market system: how it unleashes human ... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:09:16 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3430 The Vatican has verified a miracle-- the sudden healing of a Massachusetts deacon-- through the intercession of Cardinal John Henry Newman, clearing the way for the beatification of the ... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:40:26 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3425 A week before his audience with Pope Benedict XVI, President Barack Obama addressed eight questions from Catholic reporters and editors on July 2. The president began: I've had a ... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:22:40 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3426 In an article in 30 Giorni, Cardinal Georges Marie Martin Cottier-- the Swiss Dominican who served as the Theologian of the Pontifical Household from 1990 to 2005-- has offered an ... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:24:45 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3436 Bishop Patrick O'Donoghue of Lancaster, who has been increasingly vocal in his criticism of dissent within the Church, has charged that bishops who refuse to give unequivocal public ... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:45:11 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3427 Despite objections from Church officials, the Italian government has passed anti-immigration legislation. ANSA reports that people caught entering or living in Italy without a permit ... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:25:59 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3432 The archpriest of the Roman basilica of St. Paul's outside-the-Walls and the chief scientist of the Vatican Museums together briefed reporters today on the latest evidence that a tomb ... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:52:21 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3435 The Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, has dropped a federal lawsuit against that state's ethics panel, after the attorney general of Connecticut ordered the panel not to pursue a demand ... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:40:31 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3428 Douglas Kmiec, the Pepperdine University law professor and pro-life leader who shocked old colleagues when he became one of President Barack Obama's most prominent Catholic supporters, has ... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:27:53 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3431 The Vatican has released the schedule for the September trip by Pope Benedict XVI to the Czech Republic. The Holy Father will leave Rome on Saturday morning, September 26, arriving in ... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:45:42 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3433 Archbishop Francesco Monterisi, the secretary of the Congregation for Bishops, has been named by Pope Benedict XVI to become archpriest of the Roman basilica of St. Paul-outside-the-Walls. ... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:55:26 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3434 Sandro Magister, the noted Vatican-watcher of L'Espresso, calls attention to the dispute between Archbishop Rino Fischella, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, and Archbishop ... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:04:04 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3437 A spate of violence against pro-life activists has gone unnoticed by the American mass media, despite intense concern about the killing of Dr. George Tiller, the American Life League (ALL) ... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:48:18 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3438 Under the new policy directions set by the Obama administration, the US delegation to the UN is pressing for universal access to abortion. As is often the case in UN debates, the key ... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:50:15 GMT