Medical staff at East Timor’s national hospital, Dili, said goodbye to onerous transcribing recently with the introduction of a new automated laboratory information system in partnership with St John of God (SJOG) Health Care. Six SJOG pathology staff from Western Australia and Victoria spent up to six weeks training and assisting scientists at the Hospital Nacional Guido Valadares (HNGV...

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.

In an administrative move reaffirming his efforts to promote a Catholic revival in the West and greater adherence to traditional Church teaching, Pope Benedict XVI has reassigned responsibility among Vatican offices for the religious education of laypeople and future priests.

A lack of faith in God can damage marriage, even to the point of affecting its validity, Pope Benedict XVI said.

Social media need to promote more logic, kindness and Christian witness than bluster, star status and division, Pope Benedict XVI said.

Mali’s bishops say situation has reached ‘tragic proportions’

The Vatican launched a new “Pope App” on the eve of the release of the Pope’s World Communications Day message, which is dedicated to social networks as important spaces for evangelisation.

‘Eloquence, humility lead to homilies that are delightful’, cardinal says to 55 seminarians at the annual Carl Peter Lecture on Preaching at their Pontifical North American College in Rome.

Justice, kindness, humility must mark ecumenical journey, pope says