Spilling the beans on the pope’s U.S. trip

We were as surprised as anyone when Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Vatican’s apostolic nuncio — read ambassador — to the United States, today gave out a detailed itinerary of Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to the United States next April.
Typically, the nuncio’s address to the U.S. bishops on the opening day of the bishops’ fall general meeting doesn’t [...]

‘Our Catholic Youth: Learning today, leading tomorrow’

The Arkansas Catholic in Little Rock published a special section on Catholic youth earlier this month. If you want to see the state of youth ministry in one diocese or looking simply for ideas you can use locally, this might be a place to start.

This week in Origins

The latest edition of Origins: CNS Documentary Service went to press on time last week, but I forgot to tell readers here what’s in it. Here’s the lineup for the edition dated Nov. 15:

 The church’s “new” Code of Canon Law — now almost 25 years old — has proved a positive, flexible tool in dealing [...]