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International news and stories from around the world
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South Korean Catholics: Kim's visit to Chinese church not a message
Published on 2 September 2010
SEOUL, South Korea (CNS) — A whistle-stop visit by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to a church in China is not a sign that the secretive communist regime's stance toward religion is softening, South Korean Catholics say.

We Must Have at Heart the Unity of All Believers
Published on 13 March 2009
Here is the letter written by Benedict XVI concerning the remission of the excommunication of the four bishops of the Society of St Pius X that were ordained by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1988.

Document for Synod of Bishop on the Bible released
Published on 25 June 2008
The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church (The instrumentum laboris for the XII ordinary general assembly of the Synod of Bishops)

Instruction issued on authority and obedience
Published on 13 June 2008
Here is the full text of the instruction The Service of Authority and Obedience, published on May 28 by the Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

Religious faith can benefit all
Published on 29 May 2008
The following address was given by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster and president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, on May 8, 2008:

What Pope Benedict told Catholic educators in the United States
Published on 7 May 2008
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Here is the text of Pope Benedict XVI’s address to Catholic educators April 17 at The Catholic University of America in Washington.

Magdi Allam recounts his path to conversion
Published on 2 April 2008
VATICAN CITY — Here is a translation from the Zenit news service of Magdi Allam’s account of his conversion to Catholicism. The Muslim journalist was baptised by Benedict XVI at Saturday’s Easter Vigil Mass in St Peter’s Basilica. An abbreviated form of this account appeared as a letter to Paolo Mieli, the director of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. Allam is the paper’s deputy director.

Pope Benedict's message for Lent 2008
Published on 22 January 2008
“Christ made himself poor for you” (2 Corinthians 8:9)

The speech Pope Benedict did not deliver
Published on 22 January 2008
ROME (CWN) — The following is the text of the cancelled address that the Holy Father Benedict XVI was supposed to have given during a visit to Rome's Università degli Studi "La Sapienza", scheduled for January 17 (English translation by AsiaNews).

Full text of Spe Salvi
Published on 1 December 2007
ENCYCLICAL LETTER [italic]SPE SALVI[end italic] OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF BENEDICT XVI TO THE BISHOPS PRIESTS AND DEACONS MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS AND ALL THE LAY FAITHFUL ON CHRISTIAN HOPE

Sizing up Catholic schools: A partnership between religious, laity
Published on 29 November 2007
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A transformation has occurred in Catholic schools over the last 50 years, and the Vatican took its measure at a recent press conference.

Statement of Joint Catholic-Orthodox Commission
Published on 16 November 2007
RAVENNA, Italy (Zenit.org) — Here is the final document of the plenary assembly of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, held October 8-14 in Ravenna. The statement is titled "Ecclesiological and Canonical Consequences of the Sacramental Nature of the Church: Ecclesial Communion, Conciliarity and Authority".

Letter to Women Deliver conference organisers
Published on 31 October 2007
LONDON — The following is the text of a letter sent to the organising committee of the Women Deliver conference, held in London from October 18 to 21, to discuss maternal mortality. Various participating associations sent the text at the end of the conference, stating disappointment that instead of addressing the real health care needs of women and children, the agenda focused on promoting the ideology and practice of abortion.