The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

ROME (CNS): An Iraqi archbishop said his advice to US troops is to leave the country as soon as they can help Iraqis form their own government...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Prominent followers of the late schismatic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre have denied reports that a Mass later this month in Rome will be the occasion for their reconciliation with the Roman Catholic Church...

FORMER Rosies Youth Mission Brisbane co-ordinator Dominic Mapstone and volunteer Gerry Denton are planning to start an outreach program for homeless people and young people in juvenile detention in Sydney later this month...

JERUSALEM (CNS): Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah called for an end to violence in the Holy Land in his annual Easter message...

GENEVA (CNS): The most basic rights of Iraqi children have been violated repeatedly by 12 years of economic sanctions and by the US-led war, mainline Christian organisations told the UN Commission on Human Rights...

A NSW country town's grove of olive trees can be traced to a pioneering priest who brought them from the biblical Garden of Gethsemane after World War I. MICHAEL McCORMACK reports:.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Vatican said the collapse of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime marked a 'significant opportunity for the population's future' and pledged to help in rebuilding and humanitarian efforts...

TORONTO (CNS): Cleanliness and godliness are getting ever closer as Toronto deals with an outbreak of deadly, atypical pneumonia...

A Sudanese refugee family fleeing the country's long-running civil war has found a new home in Queensland with the help of the St Vincent de Paul Society. PETER BUGDEN reports:.