Cardinals Will Begin Papal Conclave Next Week To Elect The New Pope

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290305/Papal-conclave-start-TUESDAY-cardinals-prepare-elect-Benedict-XVIs-successor.html The world waits for the next Pope: Papal conclave to start on TUESDAY as cardinals prepare to elect Benedict XVI’s successor Cardinals will begin the conclave on Tuesday in the Sistine Chapel They will attend a special mass at St Peter’s Basilica in the morning Workers were pictured installing stoves for the smoke signal […]

Pope says family values are key to escaping modern ills

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/hundreds-thousands-gather-pope-family-mass-111458681.html By Jean-Louis de la Vaissiere | AFP – 17 hours ago The pope said traditional family values and Sunday rest were key to escaping the ills of modern society and reached out to divorced people at a mass to close the World Meeting of Families in Milan. Welcomed by a million flag-waving pilgrims gathered at Bresso […]

Catholic Melinda Gates reveals plans to put contraception ‘on the global agenda’ and make it her primary public health priority

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140911/Catholic-Melinda-Gates-reveals-contraception-primary-public-health-priority.html By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 14:14 EST, 7 May 2012 | UPDATED: 14:40 EST, 7 May 2012 Facing backlash from the Catholic Church on an already controversial issue, Bill Gates’ wife Melinda announced this week that contraception will be the primary goal of their foundation, with plans to revolutionize it globally. Bill and Melinda […]

An investigation worthy of a Dan Brown thriller: Vatican chiefs allow mobster’s tomb to be opened in hunt for missing girl

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135125/An-investigation-worthy-Dan-Brown-thriller-Vatican-chiefs-allow-mobsters-tomb-opened-hunt-missing-girl.html By Nick Pisa PUBLISHED: 14:59 EST, 25 April 2012 | UPDATED: 15:34 EST, 25 April 2012 Church chiefs have given permission for an Italian gangster’s tomb to be opened in an investigation worthy of a Dan Brown thriller. Enrico De Pedis, leader of a murderous gang known as the Banda della Magliana, was gunned […]

Nun-sense! Leading U.S. Catholic group chastised by Vatican for spending ‘too much time fighting poverty and not enough fighting abortion’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2132885/Nun-sense-Leading-U-S-Catholic-group-chastised-Vatican-spending-time-fighting-poverty-abortion.html By Emily Anne Epstein PUBLISHED: 15:32 EST, 20 April 2012 | UPDATED: 15:35 EST, 20 April 2012 A prominent Catholic group was shocked this week when the Vatican issued a document accusing the group of ‘radical feminism’ and ordered an extensive reform. In a report released on Wednesday, the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine […]

Pope weighs into gay marriage row condemning ‘powerful, political and cultural currents’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2112857/Pope-weighs-gay-marriage-row-condemning.html By Steve Doughty PUBLISHED: 16:02 EST, 9 March 2012 | UPDATED: 16:02 EST, 9 March 2012 The Pope yesterday condemned David Cameron’s plan to allow same-sex marriage, calling it an attack on justice. He said that marriage between a man and a woman must be preserved because it protects parents, children and the whole […]

Vatican City could be hub for money laundering, says U.S.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2112159/Vatican-classed-likely-involved-money-laundering-Yemen-Algeria-North-Korea.html By Nick Pisa UPDATED:19:22 EST, 8 March 2012 Drug enforcement chiefs have for the first time identified the Vatican as a possible centre for money laundering from criminal activity. The report by the American State Department’s International Narcotics Control Strategy lists the Holy See as one of 68 countries including Yemen, Algeria and North […]

Shhhh… Pope appeals for world to stop, listen and enjoy the sound of silence

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2091193/Pope-Benedict-XVI-appeals-world-stop-listen-enjoy-sound-silence.html ‘In silence, we are better able to understand ourselves’ By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 4:57 PM on 24th January 2012 Pope Benedict is asking people to stop amid the noise and haste and listen to the sounds of silence in life. Benedict dedicated the theme of his message for the Catholic Church’s […]

WHO IS TELLING THE TRUTH?

http://www.newswithviews.com/Anghis/roger196.htm By Pastor Roger Anghis January 8, 2012 NewsWithViews.com I was raised in the 50’s and in those years the importance of telling the truth was paramount. In the 50’s a man’s word was still his bond. Many still worked on a handshake. No one would enter a contract today without pages of definitions, promises […]

Revealed: The priest who changed the course of history … by rescuing a drowning four-year-old Hitler from death in an icy river

Future Fuhrer was plucked from certain death by boy who grew up to join the church German newspaper from 1894 reveals incident http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082640/How-year-old-Adolf-Hitler-saved-certain-death–drowning-icy-river-rescued.html By Allan Hall Last updated at 12:16 AM on 6th January 2012 t may be the most devastating act of mercy in history.A newspaper report chronicling how a boy of four was […]