VATICAN CITY – Lent is a time to return to God’s loving embrace and to remember that true happiness can only come from being a friend of Jesus, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More

BIRMINGHAM, England –In the central liturgical moment of his four-day trip to Great Britain, Pope Benedict XVI beatified Cardinal John Henry Newman and said his vision of religion’s vital role in society should serve as a model today.Read More

EDINBURGH, Scotland – Arriving in Scotland on the first leg of a four-day visit to Great Britain, Pope Benedict XVI appealed for preservation of the country’s long Christian tradition and warned against “aggressive” forms of secularism and atheism.Read More

Usually 22-year-old Corey Fick has to lift his best friend Ryan Major out of a wheelchair and place him in bed at night. But lately, Mr. Major, 23, is capable of putting himself to bed, in spite of the fact that his legs and several fingers are missing – injuries sustained in the Iraq War...Read More

WASHINGTON – Archbishop Timothy P. A. Broglio was installed Jan. 25 as the Archbishop for Military Services, USA at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington.Read More

LONDON – Leaders of a coalition of groups planning to protest publicly against Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Britain have given assurances that they do not intend to disrupt any papal ceremonies during the four-day tour.Read More

WASHINGTON – Five people, including two priests and a sister, have been indicted on federal charges 10 months after an All Souls’ Day demonstration at a U.S. Navy nuclear weapons storage depot in Bangor, Wash.Read More

LAREDO, Texas – People are biased against immigrants because they don’t know them, said the director of a migrant shelter in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.Read More