The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

JAKARTA (CNS): Christian and Muslim leaders in Indonesia have condemned the bomb attack that killed at least 13 people and injured about 150 others outside a Jakarta hotel on August 5...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Vatican is interested in any development that can help alleviate poverty and starvation, but it is not ready to give an unqualified yes to genetically modified food, said the head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace...

A former Interdominian Cup has a different but still prized role in a Catholic church in the southern NSW town of Junee. MICHAEL McCORMACK reports:.

MEXICO CITY (CNS): A year after Pope John Paul II canonised America's first indigenous saint, researchers have released a new study reconfirming the existence of Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Vatican has called on lawmakers to offer "clear and emphatic opposition" to worldwide initiatives to grant legal recognition to same-sex unions, saying such measures are contrary to human nature and ultimately harmful to society...

Pregnancy Help, a telephone counselling service for women contemplating having an abortion, is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Reporter PETER BUGDEN traces its success through changing times:.

BOSTON (ICN): Following the child sex abuse cover-up allegations last year which led to the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law as Archbishop of Boston, an official investigation concluded on July 23 that the Church had ignored 'hundreds' of complaints over the past 60 years...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Vatican has issued a new document which offers detailed arguments against legal recognition of same-sex unions and asks Catholic lawmakers to fight growing movements to legalise "gay marriage"...

ROME (Zenit): What sets apart Catholic universities from their counterparts is that they carry out their work in the light of faith, Cardinal Karl Lehmann said...