KandLe

The 100th anniversary of  the birth of Mother Teresa of Calcutta is now being celebrated around the world. She devoted her life to serving the poorest of the poor, with the motto “To love until it hurts”.

August 2010 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the ecumenical Taizé community by Brother Roger and the 5th anniversary of his death. 

Pope Benedict has welcomed with great satisfaction the fact the Convention on the prohibition of cluster bombs went into effect on 1st August 2010.

In this Vatican Radio interview, we hear from Lee Siggs, the editor of the bi-monthly Justice magazine who is also the editor the Universe Catholic weekly newspaper.

A report on the gathering of 600 theologians in Trent, Italy to discuss a range of issues from the point of view of the Catholic Church tradition in Moral Theology and contemporary culture.

Hear about the church voice at the XVII International Aids Conference which opened in Vienna last weekend. Its theme is Rights Here, Right Now.

Speaking at the Papal summer villa – Castel Gandolfo – Pope Benedict XVI once again reflected on the benefit of holiday time and the need to give first place to what is actually most important in life.

The Vatican has updated its own norms concerning ‘most serious crimes’ which include clerical sexual abuse.  The Vatican stresses that civil law must always be followed.

Multimedia coverage of the debate at the Church of England General Synod on the consecration of women bishops including video of Bishop Tom Wright’s contribution.

In this podcast, hear about how Vatican Radio is helping to start  the first Christian Radio in Holy Land.  The station will be based in Taybeh from where K&L got Peace Lamps for all our churches in 2008.