Catholic News Service-Vatican City

In a message embracing the evangelizing potential of digital media, Pope Benedict XVI asked priests around the world to use Web sites, videos and blogs as tools of pastoral ministry.

"The world of digital communication, with its almost limitless expressive capacity, makes us appreciate all the more St. Paul's exclamation: 'Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel,'" the pope said in his message for the 2010 celebration of World Communications Day.

Catholic News Service-NEW ORLEANS 

U.S. communities of women and men religious need to reach out to young Catholics to let them know about religious life and those communities also should have a full-time vocations director, said a Mercy sister involved in a new major study of vocations.
"What's happening now, particularly with those who are younger is that a lot of them haven't had direct experience with men and women religious through the school or parish" where they grew up, said Sister Mary Bendyna.
The nun is executive director of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate and principal author of the "Study of Recent Vocations to Religious Life," released Aug. 11, 2009.
It was conducted by CARA, a research center based at Georgetown University in Washington, on behalf of the National Religious Vocation

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 Work is a path to holiness. There can be no separation between the spiritual life and work life. Some see work as filling time. Certain positions have a high number of boring tasks.
Some value work for the financial resources it provides. Sufficient income is certainly very important for us and for those who depend on us.
Some use work to avoid our personal issues. The concerns of work can keep our minds occupied and distract us from painful or challenging personal problems.

Fr. Pancho Negri, M.S.

He had just turned 50 a few days earlier and had only been ordained for five years when “Padre Pancho” died in Argentina on September 28, 2009. Born to Jose and Josefina Negri on September 24, 1959 in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, Francisco Negri soon became known as Pancho to his friends. When the family moved to the outskirts of Buenos Aires, many miles south of Santiago del Estero, they settled in the city of Derqui, into
a parish where the La Salette Missionaries ministered. There he grew up. His outgoing personality allowed him easily to make friends wherever he went.

Moving from Place to Place

He had many dreams for a long life. In his late 30s his dreams focused on being a Missionary of Our Lady of La Salette and he entered the pre-novitiate formation program in Cordoba. Later he got his first experience of being an “immigrant” when he moved to Cochabamba, Bolivia, for his novitiate program. His “immigrant” experience ended with his profession on February 3, 1998 when he returned to Argentina to continue his studies in philosophy and theology.

PEOPLE LINE UP FOR GAS IN AFTERMATH OF MAJOR QUAKE IN HAITI

Fr. Andrew is a 40 year old Missionhurst Priest from the Philippines, working as a pastor in one of the poorest sections of Port-au-Prince.
He has 80,000 people in his neighborhood.