Pope Benedict shows signs of aging, but Vatican reports no illness
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.
Participants at the annual March for Life in Washington on January 25 demonstrated just how determined they are, not only by showing up in such large numbers on a bitter, cold day, but by continuing a 40-year tradition of protesting the US Supreme Court’s decision legalising abortion.
“Faith is knowing the truth and adhering to it; charity is ‘walking’ in the truth,” the Pope said in his annual message for Lent, which in 2013 begins on February 13 for Latin-rite Catholics. “Faith is genuine only if crowned by charity.”
New archbishop of Canterbury reiterates opposition to same-sex marriage
The Catholic Church has never encouraged anyone to use ivory for religious devotional objects and, in fact, teaches that animals must be treated with respect, the Vatican spokesman said in response to questions posed in an online National Geographic editorial, saying, “thinking that there is an important ivory trafficking centre to uproot here (in the Vatican) in order to save African elephants makes no sense”.
Four decades since Roe v Wade and the US continues to lose its morals and its soul writes Catholic News Service reporter Francis X Rocca.