March 29, 2012 Dear Friends in Christ, In late April, our archdiocese will take up the Catholic Relief Services collection.  

March 28, 2012 By Tom Tracy, Catholic News Service SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (CNS) – Last summer, before the press reported that Pope Benedict XVI was considering a visit to Cuba, Nancy Hilburn’s Cuban-American friends introduced her to Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre.  

March 28, 2012 By Wallice J. de la Vega, Catholic News Service EL COBRE, Cuba (CNS) – At first sight, it looked like a sleepy town without much to offer the people who just seemed to be counting the passing seconds.  

March 28, 2012 By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service HAVANA (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI spent more than 40 minutes meeting privately with Cuban President Raul Castro and asked the Cuban leader for further freedoms for the Catholic Church in Cuba and attention to certain “humanitarian” situations.  

March 28, 2012 By Francis X. Rocca, Catholic News Service HAVANA (CNS) – A few hours before they planned to attend an outdoor Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, members of a Catholic dissident group were reportedly arrested by Cuban police.  

March 27, 2012 By Catholic News Service EL COBRE, Cuba (CNS) – Entrusting people to Mary’s maternal care is a normal Catholic practice, but when Pope Benedict XVI prayed that Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre would wrap her golden mantle around the people of Cuba, it was particularly …

March 27, 2012 By Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service A lot has changed since the Franciscan friars of Cincinnati published the first issue of St. Anthony Messenger, a monthly publication for secular Franciscans, in 1893.  

March 26, 2012 By David Agren, Catholic News Service LEON, Mexico (CNS) – Priests from the Legionaries of Christ celebrate Mass every Sunday at the cathedral in this conservative Catholic city, which Pope Benedict XVI visited March 23-26.  

March 26, 2012 By David Agren, Catholic News Service GUANAJUATO CITY, Mexico (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI greeted Mexicans who lost loved ones in some of the country’s most notorious crimes, events that horrified Mexico and generated international headlines.  

March 26, 2012 By Francis X. Rocca. Catholic News Service SILAO, Mexico (CNS) – Celebrating Mass in the Catholic heartland of Mexico, Pope Benedict XVI told a nation and a continent suffering from poverty, corruption and violence, to trust in God and the intercession of Mary to help them bring …