Gregorian University to host conference on 'Healing and Renewal' from sex abuse
Representatives of 100 bishops’ conferences and 30 religious orders meet in Rome next week to launch a global initiative aimed at improving efforts to address the clerical sex abuse crisis. The initiative is to be presented at Rome’s...[more]

Pope celebrates Presentation of Lord, World Day of Consecrated Life
Pope Benedict celebrated on Thursday evening Solemn Vespers for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord at Saint Peter’s Basilica here in Rome. The Feast celebrates the presentation of Jesus in the Temple forty days after his birth, and is...[more]

US Bishops continue fight against health care ruling
Over 100 bishops in the United States have issued individual statements opposing an order from the Obama administration directing many Catholic institutions to pay for contraceptives, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs for their employees....[more]

Lombardi Editorial: Credibility and transparency
Credibility and transparency In these years of heated debate and strong criticism towards the Holy See and the Church, it is absolutely necessary to remain firm, and – drawing inspiration from the Pope’s following of the Gospel...[more]

The first Pastoral Letter of the Personal Ordinariate  of the Chair of St Peter
Washington, 3. A Pastoral Letter, the first, of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter in the territory of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops, was sent by the Ordinary, Fr Jeffrey Steenson, to Anglican ministers and...[more]

Heavy snowfall grips Europe
Huge falls of snow have caused chaos across Eastern Europe. More than a meter of snow fell on the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo Saturday trapping people in their homes and vehicles. In the Ukraine, Poland and Belarus the bad weather has also led to a...[more]

Heavy snowfall grips Europe
Huge falls of snow have caused chaos across Eastern Europe. More than a meter of snow fell on the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo Saturday trapping people in their homes and vehicles. In the Ukraine, Poland and Belarus the bad weather has also led to a...[more]

Gregorian University to host conference on 'Healing and Renewal' from sex abuse
Representatives of 100 bishops’ conferences and 30 religious orders meet in Rome next week to launch a global initiative aimed at improving efforts to address the clerical sex abuse crisis. The initiative is to be presented at Rome’s Pontifical...[more]

Fight against malaria continues
A recent study published by the British medical journal the Lancet shows that more than a million people died from malaria in 2010, which is drastically higher than the World Health Organization’s estimate that just under 700,000 died from the...[more]

Australian floods strand thousands
Heavy rains are continuing in Australia, as military helicopters evacuated stranded residents from flooded towns. More than 11,000 people in Queensland state have been isolated by the flooding and thousands had been evacuated. The flooding over...[more]

February 5, 2012
Sunday Gospel: Jill Bevilacqua presents readings and reflections on this week's Gospel in her regular feature 'There's more in the Sunday Gospel than meets the eye'.... Joan Knows: Our intrepid Vatican watcher Joan Lewis looks back over the past...[more]

February 4, 2012
Spotlight on the 2012 Eucharistic Congress - In less than 6 months the 2012 International Eucharistic Congress is to take place from the 10th to the 17th of June 2012 Ireland’s capital Dublin .Join Emer McCarthy and her guests ... The Papal...[more]

February 3, 2012
English and 'Old Roman' - As an 'Old Roman', Monsignor Peter Fleetwood attends celebrations at the Venerable English College here in Rome. Presentation in the Temple - Monsignor Philip Whitmore presents a musical meditation on the fourth Joyful...[more]

Catholic bishops visit London Olympic site
With six-months to go before the Opening Ceremony of the XXX Olympiad, bishops from the three London dioceses have visited the Olympic Park to see how 504 acres of previously toxic wasteland in the East End of London has been transformed into a...[more]

February 2, 2012
Fellowship, prayer, commitment to the poor: We take an indepth look at the history, development and guiding principles of the St Egidio Catholic lay community as it marks the 44th anniversary of its foundation.... 00:28:59:38 ...[more]

Vatican Observatory Director: history of the Universe
“Stories from another world” is the title of a major exhibition opening this spring in the Italian city of Pisa that was jointly organised by Italy’s National Institute of Nuclear Physics, the Physics Department of Pisa University and the Vatican...[more]