March 30, 2001   Thought of the Day   "Desire is to the soul what gravitation is to matter. When we know our desires, we know the direction our soul is taking. If desire is Heavenly, we go upwards, if it is wholly earthly, we go downwards."    -- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Click on the titles to read the articles   John Paul II Focuses on Power of Psalms   John Paul II´s Address to Wednesday General Audience   Address of Holy See´s Aide for "Day of the Unborn Child"   Italian Catholic Voters Offered a Decalogue   Report on Vatican Radio Antennas Seen as Unscientific   Pope to plant olive tree on Syrian side of Golan Heights   Pope reaches out to Islam   Why There Are So Few Catholics in Japan   Catholics and U.S. Presbyterians Move Closer   Priestly Ranks Shrinking in Great Britain   Mass Bar Mitzvah: Source of Pride   Bishops on ad limina: today’s "values" destroy man   Canada's Bible-reading marathon   Herod's Heroes: Congressman Maurice Hinchey New York, 26th District   Suspect in Abortion Doctor's Murder Arrested in France   UNFPA Funding Act Threatens World's Most Vulnerable Women   Mafia boss ran criminal empire from abortion business   Canada Seeks Bigger US Energy Role   Protests Shut Venezuela University   Street Vendors Protest in Bolivia   Tainted Meat Smuggled Into Britain   EU Hails 'Breakthroughs' in Enlargement Talks   EU to 'Boycott' America Over Scrapped Enviro Treaty   EU may impose sanctions on Norway over meat ban   Europeans To Revive Resolution   Tanker, Ship Collide in Baltic Sea   Newsman, Villager Killed in Kosovo Border Shelling   Mass Defection of Bosnia Croat Troops Reported   Russia: Methane Blast Rocks Coal Mine   Israeli Arabs Prepare for Protests   Israeli Troops Fire During Palestinian Protests   Arafat: Air raids start of new escalation   Sharon receives authorization for more strikes; Palestinians expected to send killer squads   Eight die in political clashes in India   Armed UN troops deploy in Congo   U.S.: North Korea is 'number one proliferator'   Bush Puts Pressure on Arafat to Stop Violence   Bush Defends Rejection of Kyoto Treaty   Helms urging Bush to renounce global test-ban treaty   At Least 17 Dead in Aspen Plane Crash   House Votes To Cut Tax Penalty   Bush Turns Humor Toward Verbal Stumbling: 'Bushisms'   HHS Chief to Alter Privacy Rules   Crumbling Military Facilities Need Billions   Oil spill stains section of Florida's Miami Beach   Coronal Mass ejections heading for earth-Giant Sunspot on sun. New Asteroid discoveries   Giant sunspot may explode   Volcanic Plumes Seen on Jupiter Moon   Moderate exercise beats hard-core workouts, researchers think   Tests show anti-fat trigger in lab mice   Rusty red Mars reveals telling grey area   Plant life explosion seen from space   Rapid-forming crack soon to cause massive Antarctic Iceberg breakoff   Oceans gobbling up more carbon dioxide   New Tremor Shakes El Salvador, No Damage Reported   Costa Rica Volcano Explodes   Meningitis Kills 1,600 in Africa   U.S. pigs hit with AIDS-like symptoms   Livestock Plague Ravages Britain, Netherlands   Foot-and-mouth disease may hit UK milk supplies   Foot-and-mouth disease can hit Canada, vet says   Record Heat Sparks Greek Fires   Record Snowfall Over Great Lakes   Three million face starvation in Sudan   Crocodiles, Hippos Menace Flood Victims   Twisters Hit Down South   Liberal media 'ignores' rape-killing of boy, 13   England: Bishop lets divorcees remarry in church   Florida University Under Fire for Play With Gay Christ Character   Planned 'Porn-hood' sues to stop Children's Internet Protection Act   Messages to Laura Zink - ARCHIVED   Boy sees the Virgin during apparition at Medjugorje as Mary said to field pilgrims' questions   The Hoax That Keeps On Hoaxing   Advances in Genetics Outpace Public Policy   Background Checks Fail to Keep Guns From Felons   Thirsting for Souls   Christian Order - "Magisterialism" and Positivism, By Father Chad Ripperger, F.S.S.P. part two A scholar examines the root cause of present tensions within the ranks of faithful Catholics   Jamaican Freed After 29 Years for Breaking Window   Want A Bigger Butt? Go To A Silicone Party In Miami   Officer Baby Saver   Even during the drought: Association green-lights fines to owners with brown lawns   Mum banned from taking breast milk on to plane   Man allegedly killed most of his 14 wives   Badger family get £30,000 home Back to the top