VATICAN CITY (CNS): A Catholic archbishop was freed unharmed in Mosul, Iraq, less than 24 hours after he was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen...
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CARDINAL SCHOTTE DIES
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Belgian Cardinal Jan Schotte, who served the Holy See for more than three decades, died in Rome on January 10 at the age of 76...
Read More »HITLER’S PLOT TO ABDUCT POPE PIUS XII
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Adolf Hitler personally ordered one of his senior Nazi officers to arrange the kidnapping of Pope Pius XII toward the end of World War II, according to new information cited by an Italian newspaper...
Read More »‘PAPAL ORDER’ ON BAPTISED JEWISH YOUTH
ROME (CNS): A 1946 instruction, apparently approved by Pope Pius XII, said Jewish children who had been baptised to save them from the Nazis were to be entrusted only to families or institutions that would guarantee their continuing education in the faith...
Read More »POPE PRAYS FOR TSUNAMI VICTIMS
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II ushered in the New Year with prayers for the families and victims of the December 26 earthquake and tsunami that swept through parts of southern Asia and Africa...
Read More »War cannot bring peace
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Continuing tension and bloodshed in Iraq, the Holy Land and Africa are proof that war and retaliation cannot bring peace, Pope John Paul II says in his message for World Peace Day 2005...
Read More »Vandal attack on controversial wax Nativity
LONDON (CNS): A British wax exhibit that featured soccer star David Beckham as St Joseph and Beckman's wife, former Spice Girls singer Victoria Adams, as Mary, was closed after a vandal attacked it...
Read More »Christmas with the grandparents
It isn't easy being a grandparent who has full-time care of your grandchildren, especially at Christmas...
Read More »Nativity scene a vital sign of Christmas
VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Nativity scene is a cultural and artistic trademark of Christmas, reflecting faith in a God who came to live among his people, said Pope John Paul II...
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