The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

Bishop Michael Putney of Townsville spoke to reporter NICHOLAS KERR about why he finds ecumenism so exhilarating:.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): In their first meeting since the Iraq war, Pope John Paul II told US President George W...

BERN, Switzerland (CNS): On a two-day visit to Switzerland, an aging Pope John Paul II reminisced with young people about his own youth and asked them to make room for Christ in their busy lives...

LONDON (CNS): A rare and valuable letter written and signed by St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, has been discovered in Jesuit archives in London...

VATICAN CITY (Zenit): The German mystic whose recorded visions helped inspire Mel Gibson's movie, The Passion of the Christ, will be beatified on October 3...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II has called on the world's richer nations to help Africa become a continent of justice and peace...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): More than a year ago, US Cardinal J. Francis Stafford warned that the "war on terrorism" was leading to implicit acceptance of torture by the United States.

ROME (CNS): In a new autobiographical book, Pope John Paul II says he thinks he may have been too lenient as a pastor...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II elevated four men and two women to sainthood on May 16, including a mother who gave up her life to save the life of her unborn child...