The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

VATICAN CITY (CNS): A Catholic archbishop was freed unharmed in Mosul, Iraq, less than 24 hours after he was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It isn't easy being a grandparent who has full-time care of your grandchildren, especially at 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...