March 26, 2012 By Wallice de la Vega, Catholic News Service SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (CNS) – Santiago de Cuba was ready for Pope Benedict XVI.  

March 27, 2012 By Francis X. Rocca, Catholic News Service LEON, Mexico (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI thanked Latin America’s bishops for their hard work in a troubled region and urged them to continue the evangelization campaign he launched with them at their first meeting five years earlier.  

March 27, 2012 By Francis X. Rocca, Catholic News Service SILAO, Mexico (CNS) – Visiting Latin America for the second time in his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI offered a message of hope for social progress rooted in a revival of Catholic faith.  

March 27, 2012 By Francis X. Rocca, Catholic News Service SILAO, Mexico (CNS) – Arriving in Mexico on his second papal visit to Latin America March 23, Pope Benedict XVI said he came as a “pilgrim of faith, of hope, and of love,” promoting the cause of religious freedom, social …

March 27, 2012 By David Agren, Catholic News Service SILAO, Mexico (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI bade Mexico a warm “adios,” emphasizing he meant, “Remain with God,” concluding a trip marked by outpourings of faith and affection from people in the world’s second-most populous Catholic country.  

March 27, 2012 By Catholic News Service SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI began his three days in Cuba with a call for greater freedom and human rights, including increased liberty for the Catholic Church to proclaim the Gospel and serve the Cuban people.  

March 27, 2012 By Francis X. Rocca, Catholic News Service SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (CNS) – Celebrating an outdoor Mass on his first day in Cuba, Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged the struggles of the country’s Catholics after half a century of communism and described human freedom as a necessity for …

March 23, 2012 By Steve Trosley, CT Editor At least 500 people attended a prayer rally in a steady spring rain to protest the HHS Mandate requiring free contraception and sterilization services from all health care insurance plans without religious exemption.  

March 22, 2012 On March 8, Catholic Inner-City Schools Education  (CISE) Fund held its annual volunteer appreciation event at St. Francis de Sales School celebrating the success of the 2011 campaign.  

March 16, 2012 By Father Timothy P. Schehr Fourth Sunday of Lent: 2 Chronicles 36:14-23; Ephesians 2:4-10; John 3:14-21 Only once every three years do we hear from Chronicles on a Sunday. But the wait is certainly worthwhile. This first reading provides the perfect summary of God’s ways with the …