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VATICAN CITY (CNS): Marriage, by marking the birth of a new family, is an important event for the new couple and society, Pope John Paul II told Spain's new royal couple...

ULM, Germany (CNS): The Vatican's top ecumenist told participants in a German Catholic Church assembly that Christians could not put up with what he called "the scandal of division"...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): People craving deeper meaning or greater fulfilment in their lives should look to what the Catholic faith has to offer rather than turn to the spiritual promises of the New Age movement, a Vatican official said...

ROME (CNS): Pope John Paul II has announced a special year dedicated to the Eucharist, saying the Church needs to highlight its importance for spiritual life and missionary tasks of the 21st century...

HONG KONG (CNS): Hong Kong's bishop is urging Catholics to fight for the vindication of victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre...

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...