The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

LONDON (CNS): A British wax exhibit that featured soccer star David Beckham as St Joseph and Beckman's wife, former Spice Girls singer Victoria Adams, as Mary, was closed after a vandal attacked it...

It isn't easy being a grandparent who has full-time care of your grandchildren, especially at Christmas...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Nativity scene is a cultural and artistic trademark of Christmas, reflecting faith in a God who came to live among his people, said Pope John Paul II...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Fighting discrimination against Jews and Muslims must not come at the expense of protecting the rights of Christians, a top Vatican official told European foreign ministers...

LONDON (CNS): Margaret Hassan, the aid worker kidnapped and killed in Iraq, remained a Catholic throughout her life and never converted to Islam as was widely reported, the Archdiocese of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, said in a statement...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II has told US bishops they need to remind lay Catholics of their duty to follow authoritative Church teachings, whether in private life or in social roles...

Young women and girls are among the fastest growing group contracting HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea, where the AIDS problem has reached crisis level.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): After hundreds of years, Orthodox faithful again will be able to pray before the earthly remains of two of their greatest saints, theologians and patriarchs - Sts Gregory Nazianzen and John Chrysostom...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II has told Ukrainians he is praying for peace in their country, where tensions are running high following a bitterly disputed presidential election...