The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS): Some current conflicts are more difficult to resolve than past wars because they involve economic, not just political issues, said secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Bishop Diarmuid Martin...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Calling it immoral and unnecessary, the Vatican has condemned the production and use of human embryos for stem-cell research, despite its humanitarian aims...

ROME (CNS): Joining 2 million young people on the outskirts of Rome, Pope John Paul II closed a week of World Youth Day festivities with a call to change the world by embracing the Gospel...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II has condemned separate terrorist acts in Russia and Spain and appealed for an end to Christian-Muslim violence in Indonesia...

SEOUL (CNS): South Korea's Catholic bishops have encouraged Pope John Paul II to visit North Korea, saying it is the wish of the South Korean people that he visit the communist north...

MEXICO CITY (CNS): An official investigation of the 1993 assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo has ended in Mexico, but disagreement persists among federal, state and Church officials over the killing...

WASHINGTON (CNS): The Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments has issued the first revision in 25 years of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS): Access to life-saving drugs was high on the agenda of the 13th International AIDS Conference, but Church participants focused primarily on caring for those living with HIV and AIDS...

COLOGNE, Germany (CNS): The German Catholic Church has admitted that it employed slave labourers during the Nazi regime...