by John Freund, CM | Dec 19, 2008 | Church
Pope Benedict says, “Internet today calls for an even greater integration of written, audio and visual communication, and raises the challenge of increasing and intensifying the methods of collaboration between means of communication that are at the service of...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 16, 2008 | Church
Cardinal Renato Martino presented Benedict XVI’s message for the World Day of Peace as a sneak preview of an upcoming encyclical on social doctrine. The president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace suggested that the Pope’s third encyclical...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 13, 2008 | Church
Pope Benedict XVI said the current global financial crisis is the result of individuals seeking short-term monetary gains at the expense of the common good. In his annual message published Thursday ahead of the Roman Catholic Church’s annual World Day of Peace...
by sjs | Nov 29, 2008 | Church, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Too often, strategies in the fight against hunger “are adopted which pursue particular goals rather than a holistic vision which ranks the human needs first,” warned the permanent observer of the Holy See to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 29, 2008 | Church, Vincentian Family
On the occasion of the 175th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Society of St Vincent de Paul, the Holy Father wishes to spiritually join the action of thanksgiving of this happy commemoration and at the same time to set forward an invitation to passionately renew...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 4, 2008 | Church, Social
”I’m getting 200 new friends every day,” the cardinal said. ”You have to go where the people are and if the people are on Facebook you go there too” according to Zenit During the synod of bishops it was suggested that Benedict XVI set up...
