Mercy was the theme of the 2016 Goodness Reigns Film Contest. Submissions were featured as part of the Youth Fest Cinema Program during World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland, July 28, 2016.

Read about Blessed Bartolo Longo, the founder of modern Pompeii, and how the Rosary aided his return to Christianity. Share your story on the power of the Rosary in our current contest. Visit http://www.goodnessreigns.com/.

Youth and young adults who gathered for the 2013 National Catholic Youth Conference welcomed the opportunity to sign two posters being sent to the Holy Father.

The interview airs for the first time on December 7 at 1:30 PM and again on December 8 at 9:30 AM. To access the station online at these times, or to listen to the podcast following the interview, visit “Power from the Pews” on Ave Maria Radio.

On Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. Pope Benedict XVI will retire to a monastery inside Vatican City.

“Although we are aware of the many problematic situations … we wish to renew our faith in the young and reaffirm that the Church looks to their condition and their cultures as an essential and inescapable” focal point for its ministry, the Pope told the Pontifical Council for Culture on Feb. 7. (Source: Catholic News Agency)

“…one can cooperate with the Kingdom of God in several ways…” Pope Benedict XVI

Reprinted from Catholic News Agency. Story by David Kerr (www.catholicnewsagency.com)

“Through the traditional practices of fasting, almsgiving and prayer, which are an expression of our commitment to conversion, Lent teaches us how to live the love of Christ in an ever more radical way..” Pope Benedict XVI
(Courtesy of Zenit News Service: www.zenit.org.)

Announcement of the May 1 beatification prompts joyful news that the late Pope John Paul II, the “friend of young people” and founder of World Youth Day, will become the event’s patron saint. (Reported by Zenit News Service, www.zenit.org)