The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

VATICAN CITY (CNS): In their relations with Jews, Christians cannot conceal the strong missionary dimension of their faith, but also must recognise that Jews do not have to convert in order to be saved, a top Vatican official said...

RABOUEH, Lebanon (CNS): Patriarchs from Middle Eastern Catholic Churches who met in Lebanon have warned the United States against a war with Iraq...

ROME (CNS): An international delegation of Catholic aid agencies has warned that military strikes against Iraq would provoke an unjustifiable humanitarian catastrophe for Iraqi civilians...

VATICAN CITY (Zenit/CNS): Pope John Paul has called on all Italian citizens to help the town of San Giuliano di Puglia rebuild in the wake of an October 31 earthquake that killed 29 people, including 26 children...

NEW YORK (CNS): Groups formed under the auspices of the World Community for Christian Meditations are growing faster in the United States than any other part of the world, according to the Benedictine monk who directs the community...

WASHINGTON (CNS): Two Sudanese bishops, calling the civil war in their country genocide, have asked the international community for help in ending the violence...

COLOGNE, Germany (CNS): German Catholics have reacted angrily to Cologne Cardinal Joachim Meisner for criticising lay people about their lack of knowledge of the Church...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Beginning the 25th year of his papacy, a landmark reached by only four of his predecessors, Pope John Paul II thanked God for his ministry and entrusted his future to the care of the Virgin Mary...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Officials involved in the process to canonise Mother Teresa of Calcutta said they were confident that the healing of an Indian woman with an abdominal tumour would be the miracle needed for the nun's beatification...