Pope: Swiss Guards’ Uniforms Speak of Commitment

Thanks Corps for “Serving the Servant of God’s Servants”
VATICAN CITY, MAY 5, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is praising the Swiss Guard for their commitment to serving God by serving Christ’s Vicar.
The Pope spoke to 33 new recruits of the guard today, accompanied by their families and other members of the corps. The new recruits will [...]

Swiss Guard swearing-in ceremony highlights corps history

Vatican City, May 5, 2008 / 11:16 am (CNA).- The San Damaso Courtyard of the Apostolic Palace will be filled on Tuesday evening with close to 100 of the Pope’s Swiss Guards decked out in their 16th century black, red, and yellow dress uniforms. The occasion for the guards’ en masse appearance is the oath [...]

Confirmed: Vatican sees miracle in Newman’s cause

Birmingham, Apr. 25, 2008 (CWNews.com) - An official spokesman for the cause of beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman has confirmed that the Vatican has given preliminary approval to the authenticity of a miracle attributed to Cardinal Newman’s intercession.Final approval of the miracle would clear the way for the beatification of the Cardinal Newman, a [...]

Video-message of the Holy Father Benedict XVI to the USA

VIDEO-MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER BENEDICT XVI
TO CATHOLICS AND PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ON THE OCCASION OF THE UPCOMING APOSTOLIC JOURNEY
Short version with video above:
Dear brothers and sisters, dear friends in the United States,
I am very much looking forward to being with you. I want you to know that, even if my itinerary [...]

Pope sends advance message to US

Vatican, Apr. 8, 2008 (CWNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) has released a message to the people of the United States, in preparation for his trip to America next week.
In his message the Holy Father says that he is coming to the US to proclaim that “Jesus Christ is hope for men and [...]

Knights of Columbus Survey reveals Americans have positive opinion of Pope Benedict

New Haven, Mar 26, 2008 / 07:34 am (CNA).- On Tuesday the Knights of Columbus published the results of a survey they commissioned on American’s opinions about the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI and their hopes for the papal visit to the United States in April.
The survey results show that Americans have a generally positive [...]

British government to reconsider Catholic monarch ban

                           Jack Straw 
London, Mar 26, 2008 / 07:21 pm (CNA).- The British government is considering whether to abolish the 300-year-old Act of Settlement that forbids Catholics from sitting on the British throne, the Scotsman reports.
Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, revealed the proposal after he unveiled the draft of the sweeping Constitutional Reform Bill yesterday.
The bill did [...]

Saudi king calls for interfaith dialogue

 
By DONNA ABU-NASR and ABDULLAH SHIHRI, Associated Press Writers Tuesday Mar 25
King Abdullah is calling for a dialogue among Muslims, Christians and Jews, the first such proposal from this strictly Muslim kingdom at a time of mounting tensions between followers of Islam and those of other religions.
In a speech late Monday, Abdullah said the country’s [...]

Intercession of Virgin Mary prevented war in South America, newspaper reveals

 
Bogota, Columbia March 24, 2008 / 11:19 am (CNA).- The Colombian daily “El Tiempo” revealed on Holy Saturday that a crisis that could have ended in an open conflict between Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela was averted by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe confiding the situation to the intercession of Mary under the three different titles by [...]

Jews debate anti-gentile prayers with Respect to Good Friday Prayer

By MENACHEM WECKER
March 21, 2008 - Tensions between Catholics and Jews over a Good Friday prayer in the Latin Tridentine Mass have caused some Jews to take a harder look at their own exclusive prayers and to ask whether Catholics are getting a lopsided share of blame.
For instance, after the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious [...]