Mother Teresa

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

Pope Condemns LatAM 'autocrats'

Pope Benedict XVI has criticised "authoritarian governments" in Latin America as he opened a major bishops' conference in the region.

The Pope's First Visit To The Americas

Pope Benedict XVI is making his first official visit to the Americas, with a trip to Brazil.

Catholic Church Tested In Brazil

Some 15,000 people are swaying in front of him, their hands raised in the air.
This is not a pop concert, but a Catholic mass in Sao Paulo, Brazil, celebrated by the country's best-known priest, known to everyone as Padre Marcelo. The former aerobics teacher turned cleric is now so popular that his CDs outsell every pop star in the country.
The turnout in a converted factory is encouraging news for the Catholic Church after a long period of declining numbers. That long term fall coincides with growing pressure from Brazil's Pentecostal churches, which have been expanding rapidly.

Catholic News Agency

King Herod's Tomb 'Found'

An Israeli archaeologist says he has found the tomb of King Herod, the ruler of Judea while it was under Roman administration in the first century BC.