http://www.catholicism.org/news News Headlines from our Apostolate and around the World Tue, 13 May 2008 20:20:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, there are thirty-five craters on the moon named after Jesuit astronomers.  Maybe those who decide such things can find another hole up there, or somewhere, to name after this star gazing padre. Father Jose Funes does not believe that believing in outer space aliens compromises any Catholic doctrine.  Not ... http://www.catholicism.org/news/2008/05/13/aliens-its-a-big-universe-why-not-says-vatican-astronomer/ Vatican, May. 12, 2008 (CWNews.com) - Humanae Vitae (doc), the landmark encyclical of Pope Paul VI "became a sign of contradiction" because it upheld the Church's traditional condemnation of contraception, Pope Benedict XVI ... http://www.catholicism.org/news/2008/05/13/pope-celebrates-40th-anniversary-of-humanae-vitae/ CNA STAFF, May 10, 2008 / 04:58 pm (CNA).- A former Jordanian minister has seized upon commentary about the decline of Western power, saying on Arabic-language television that Islam will conquer Rome.  He went on to say that Spain is an Islamic land that should be retaken and that America ... http://www.catholicism.org/news/2008/05/12/former-jordanian-religion-minister-says-rome-will-fall-to-moslems/ Vatican, May. 9, 2008 (CWNews.com) - Cardinal Dario Castrillon-Hoyos has told an Italian magazine that diocesan bishops should show good will in granting requests for the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass under the terms of the motu proprio authorizing wider use of the extraordinary ... http://www.catholicism.org/news/2008/05/12/ecclesia-dei-president-wants-bishops-to-apply-motu-proprio-not-hinder-it/ Kansas, May. 9, 2008 (CWNews.com) - Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City has announced that Governor Kathleen Sebelius should not receive Communion because of her support for legal abortion. Read article here. http://www.catholicism.org/news/2008/05/09/kansas-city-archbishop-bars-pro-abortion-governor-from-communion/ The actor, Jim Caviezel, has some words of wisdom that you may like to read in this interview with Lifesite News. http://www.catholicism.org/news/2008/05/09/the-caviezels-adopt-second-disabled-child/ These were the last words of Ismael Molinero Novillo from his deathbed in a prison of war camp. “I want nothing of this world.  I belong to God and I live for God. If I die I will be totally God’s in heaven, and if I don’t die, I want to ... http://www.catholicism.org/news/2008/05/09/beatification-cause-opened-for-another-young-hero-of-spanish-civil-war/ And this for a letter-to-the-editor she wrote as a private individual on her own time. Toledo,OH, May 8, 2008 / 03:01 am (CNA).- An administrator at the University of Toledo has been placed on paid administrative leave after writing a column in a local paper that argued against including homosexuals as ... http://www.catholicism.org/news/2008/05/09/university-administrator-placed-on-leave-for-criticism-of-homosexual-lifestyle/ Vatican City, May 8, 2008 / 04:40 pm (CNA).- In a letter to all of the episcopal conferences of the world to mark the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on May 30, the World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests, Cardinal Claudio Hummes, prefect of the ... http://www.catholicism.org/news/2008/05/09/prefect-of-clergy-calls-for-priests-to-have-radical-commitment-to-christ/ CWN reports Warsaw, May. 6, 2008 (CWNews.com) - Roughly one-fourth of the students graduating from Polish high schools this year will make a pilgrimage to the Marian shrine at Czestochowa, the KAI news agency reports. About 125,000 students are expected to participate in the 34 different pilgrimages ... http://www.catholicism.org/news/2008/05/07/one-quarter-of-polands-high-school-students-will-make-pilgrimage-to-our-ladys-shrine/