The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

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WARSAW, Poland (CNS): Pope John Paul II wrote a letter to Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca after the would-be assassin shot the pontiff at the Vatican in 1981, the pope's former secretary said...

NEW YORK (CNS): Any evolutionary position that denies the "overwhelming evidence for design in biology is ideology, not science" and incompatible with Catholic teaching, said Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna...

ROME (CNS): The Polish priest nominated to shepherd Pope John Paul II's sainthood cause said it is "absolutely impossible" to make even a wild guess about how long the process will take...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Orthodox Churches are set to revive what has been a stalled theological dialogue with the Catholic Church, said the head of an Orthodox delegation on a visit to the Vatican...

BANGKOK (CNS): The Catholic Church's international social aid network says it has responded well to the Boxing Day tsunami tragedy, but that much work remains to be done to help people in the long term...

VATICAN CITY (Zenit/CNS): Pope Benedict XVI said he was "deeply saddened" by the death of Cardinal Jaime Sin, 76, the retired Archbishop of Manila in the Philippines, who died on June 21...

An ecumenical prayer initiative is bringing new hope to the people of Palm Island, which was rocked by a much publicised riot late last year...

MADRID, Spain (CNS): Senior Spanish clergy joined hundreds of thousands of protesters in central Madrid on June 18, calling on the government to withdraw a bill that will allow homosexual couples to marry and adopt children...