Is it OK to write an HTTP request to read RSS?

Question

C++ / C#

Hello. I'm writing an RSS reader and I have a couple of questions. The code is like this:

public static List<NewsRSS> ReadRSS(string Url)
        {
            List<NewsRSS> News = new List<NewsRSS>();
            try
            {
                WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(Url);
                XmlTextReader NewsXmlReader = new XmlTextReader(request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream());
                XDocument NewsXml = XDocument.Load(NewsXmlReader);

                foreach (XElement NewsNode in NewsXml.Element("rss").Element("channel").Elements("item"))
                {
                   //тут просто выбираем нужные данные из XML
                }
            } catch (XmlException XmlErr)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Ошибка при работе с XML: {0}", XmlErr.Message);
            } catch (HttpListenerException HttpErr )
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Ошибка при обработке запроса: {0}", HttpErr.Message);
            }

            return News;
        }

Actually, questions:
1. Is error handling normal? What confuses me is that if an error occurs, an empty news list will be returned.
2. Is the request sending logic written correctly? Maybe you need to somehow send requests asynchronously via async/await?