The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

LONDON (CNS): Amnesty International has defended its new policy on abortion after a Vatican official said Catholics might need to withdraw their financial support of the organization...

ADELAIDE journalist, Nicholas Kerr, met Bishop Joseph Gasi, of Tombura-Yambio diocese in Yambio, Southern Sudan, in 2002, when the Government of Sudan was bombing Southern Sudan almost every day...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): A 27-year-old German man was forced to undergo immediate psychiatric treatment on June 6 after he jumped over a barrier in St...

ROME (CNS): Thousands of Vatican documents demonstrate that Pope Pius XII worked quietly but effectively to help Jews and others during World War II, a top Vatican official said...

LONDON (CNS): Britain's two cardinals have reminded Catholic politicians that it is unacceptable for them to vote for abortion rights...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope Benedict XVI urged Sudan to end its military campaign against the war-ravaged region of Darfur and implement a political solution that respects the country's minorities...

ROME (CNS): US President George W. Bush has been invited to visit the Sant'Egidio Community, a Catholic lay community known for leading high-profile peace negotiations as well as being active in the fight against the death penalty and HIV/AIDS.

OTTAWA (CNS): Tony Vella, the great-nephew of Fr George Preca, said he hopes the charismatic Maltese priest's life and virtues will be remembered long after his June 3 canonisation...

Italian author Professor Querciolo Mazzonis, an enthusiastic scholar of Ursuline foundress St Angela Merici, has been in Australia speaking on female spirituality in religious orders and as a guest of the Ursuline Sisters. He shares some of his insights with reporter PAUL DOBBYN.