The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

ROME (AsiaNews): Chinese authorities recently arrested Monsignor Julius Jia Zhiguo, underground bishop of Zhengding (Hebei), to prevent him from disseminating Pope Benedict XVI's Letter to Chinese Catholics and organising meetings in which the letter's contents would be explained to the faithful...

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS): The seemingly invincible ideologies of consumerism and hedonism and the reign of violence and terror will all be defeated by God's love, Pope Benedict XVI said...

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS): Contrary to what many may think, young people are strongly attracted to Jesus Christ and the Gospel, Pope Benedict XVI told thousands of Spanish youths...

Aboriginal people continue to struggle for justice in Australia. A recent conference on the Sunshine Coast looked at this issue through Church experience. Reporter PAUL DOBBYN spoke to Brisbane archdiocese's Murri Ministry co-ordinator Ravina Waldren after the conference.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Although Iraq has a democratic government, Iraqi Christians were safer and had more protection under former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the future head of the Vatican's inter-religious dialogue council said...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (CNS): Responding to a government appeal, Catholic groups have been distributing food and relief materials to help victims of the recent heavy flooding in Bangladesh...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace has supported British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's project to rally leaders of government, business and faith-based organisations in pushing to achieve the Millennium Development Goals...

ROME (CNS): Although he loves the Latin language and would have no technical difficulty even preaching in Latin, retired Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini of Milan, Italy, said he would not celebrate the Tridentine Mass...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): When adults have so much difficulty bringing young people to faith, it probably is a sign that God is calling youths to evangelise their peers, Pope Benedict XVI said in his message for World Youth Day 2008...