The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

ROME (CNS): Representatives of most of the world's bishops' conferences and 30 religious orders have met in Rome to launch a global initiative aimed at improving efforts to stop clerical sexual abuse and better protect children and vulnerable adults.

PARIS (CNS): French President Nicolas Sarkozy rejected calls for secular values to be enshrined into his country's constitution and urged religious leaders to do more to spread their message in the country.

SUSANNA Garbo felt so welcomed by Brisbane Catholics as part of Days in the Diocese before World Youth Day 2008 she always knew a return was on the cards.

ROME (Zenit.org): The federal government decision last week on insurance coverage for contraceptives in the United States has been widely condemned.

VATICAN CITY (Zenit.org): Benedict XVI says that every component of the Church should feel bound by Christ's mandate to preach the Gospel, so that He is proclaimed everywhere.

Emily's Voice is a pro-life organisation that represents the 80,000 plus "little Australians" each year who won't be given the chance to experience life outside the womb. SELINA VENIER spoke to their new CEO Paul O'Rourke

(ACN): THE Punjab government in Pakistan stands accused of "brutal injustice" for sending bulldozers into a Church-owned site and demolishing homes for poor, elderly and homeless people, a school for poor girls and a church.

CATHOLICS in Bosnia-Herzegovina should be treated equally, according to Cardinal Vinko Puljic, archbishop of Sarajevo

VATICAN CITY (Zenit.org): Benedict XVI says that Jesus' prayer at the Last Supper shows the Saviour's attentiveness to each one of his individual disciples.