ROME (CNS) -- In his first month on Twitter, Pope Benedict XVI sent two dozen mini-messages in nine languages, generating more than 270,000 comments and responses from other Twitter users, according to a study conducted by an Italian Jesuit magazine and an Italian new-media consulting firm. While s...
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ROCKFORD, Ill. (CNS) -- Sean Considine, a safety for the Baltimore Ravens, is the first to point out that he belongs to some important families -- God's family, the family his parents began, his hometown community, the family he shares with his wife and four children, and the NFL. "My Catholic fait...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI called for greater investment in families and protecting life. As the Italian Catholic Church marked Day for Life Feb. 3, the pope used his Sunday Angelus address to echo the Italian bishops' call "to invest in life and the family, also as an effective respon...
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ROME (CNS) -- In his first month on Twitter, Pope Benedict XVI sent two dozen mini-messages in nine languages, generating more than 270,000 comments and responses from other Twitter users, according to a study conducted by an Italian Jesuit magazine and an Italian new-media consulting firm. While s...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The best way the church can be heard and seen amid the deluge of the information age is to launch a media blitz of simple answers to life's deepest questions, a young Catholic journalist told a Vatican news conference. "People always say it should be quality over quantity; per...
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ROCKFORD, Ill. (CNS) -- Sean Considine, a safety for the Baltimore Ravens, is the first to point out that he belongs to some important families -- God's family, the family his parents began, his hometown community, the family he shares with his wife and four children, and the NFL. "My Catholic fait...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI said the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day calls humanity to work to overcome all forms of hatred and racism and to respect the dignity of each human person. Praying the Angelus Jan. 27 with visitors gathered in St. Peter's Square, the pope called attention to...
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OXFORD, England (CNS) -- Mali's Catholic bishops praised efforts by their acting head of state to hold the country together and backed his appeal for a "general mobilization" against Islamist insurgents. "The situation we are living through is very grave and has reached tragic proportions in recent...
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Among the thousands of people gathered in Washington Jan. 25 for the annual March for Life were two best friends from Christendom College, Paul Wilson and John Schofield, who had walked eight miles from St. Mary's Church in Alexandria, Va., on a "holy pilgrimage." Others found t...
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- U.S. Rep. Chris Smith Jan. 22 struck a solemn note with an allusion to the song "Empty Tables, Empty Chairs" from "Les Miserables" during a Capitol Hill news conference to mark the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision. "There's a grief that can't be...
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