The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

FRANCIS SULLIVAN defends the role and rights of Catholic hospitals following the latest round of "anti-Catholic" bashing.

OXFORD, England (CNS): Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus of Warsaw resigned just two days after formally taking office, after admitting that he had acted as an informer for Poland's former Communist secret police and that his co-operation harmed the Church...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope Benedict XVI said the age of globalisation is challenging political, scientific and religious leaders to shape a new world order based on spiritual values...

Reporter KARL BRIEN reviews 2006 through the pages of The Catholic Leader.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Even when faced with a potential terrorist attack or in the midst of war, basic human rights must be respected, Pope Benedict XVI said in his message for World Peace Day 2007...

CAPE TOWN (CNS): South Africa's religious leaders must focus on crime because "not enough is being done or seen to be done" by the government and police, said Cardinal Wilfrid F. Napier of Durban.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): After centuries of allowing themselves to grow apart, Roman Catholics and Greek Orthodox must seek forgiveness and learn to work together for the good of the world, said Pope Benedict XVI and Orthodox Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens and all Greece...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Meeting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Pope Benedict XVI raised questions regarding the situation of the dwindling Catholic population in the Holy Land, including in Bethlehem, the Vatican said...

SANTIAGO, Chile (CNS): A Chilean cardinal prayed that God would "not consider the wrongdoings" of Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean general and dictator who died on December 10 at age 91...