MADABA, Jordan (CNS): Standing on the mountain where Moses glimpsed the Promised Land, Pope John Paul II prayed that peace and justice would come to the modern peoples of the troubled region...

KAMPALA,Uganda (CNS): A tape recording of the Virgin Mary helped convert many to a Ugandan sect that apparently committed mass suicide...

POPE John Paul II has made an unprecedented apology for the sins of Christians through the ages, the culmination of the Church's "examination of conscience" for the Jubilee Year...

FRIBOURG, Switzerland (CNS): Switzerland's Catholic bishops have acknowledged that the Church "failed in its obligations toward the Jewish people" during the Nazi era...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Catholic Church's oldest cardinal, Ignatius Kung Pin-mei, died on March 12, aged 98...

CAIRO. Egypt (CNS): Pope John Paul II began a long-anticipated series of Holy Year pilgrimages to the roots of the faith with a three-day visit to Egypt late last month.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): People who believe the Second Vatican Council marked a break with the Catholic Church's past cannot correctly interpret its teaching, Pope John Paul II said...