Pope Benedict honors Paul VI in Italian birthplace
AP - Sun Nov 8, 11:14 am ETPope Benedict XVI made a one-day pilgrimage Sunday to northern Italy to pay tribute to Paul VI, his predecessor who made him a cardinal.
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Ban on crucifixes in school riles Vatican
Boston Herald - Wed Nov 4, 12:19 am ETROME - The Vatican yesterday denounced a ruling by the European court of human rights that said the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and...
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Vatican: pope to meet Anglican chief
AP via Yahoo! News - Fri Oct 30, 2:29 pm ETPope Benedict XVI will meet with the Archbishop of Canterbury next month in the leaders' first encounter since the Catholic church moved to make it easier for disenchanted Anglicans to convert to Catholicism, a Vatican spokesman said Friday.
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Vatican decries Europe court ruling against crucifix display in schools
Arizona Daily Star - Wed Nov 4, 2:20 am ETROME — The Vatican on Tuesday denounced a ruling by the European court of human rights that said the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and education freedoms.
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Archbishop of Canterbury to meet Pope Nov 21: Vatican
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Fri Oct 30, 2:48 pm ETPope Benedict will hold talks with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on Nov 21 in their first meeting since a Vatican initiative making it easier for disaffected Anglicans to convert to Catholicism.
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Catholics who sued SF supes get new hearing
San Diego Union-Tribune - Fri Nov 6, 3:04 pm ETA federal appeals court will conduct a new hearing to determine whether San Francisco officials violated the Constitution by denouncing a Vatican order to not place adoptive children with same-sex couples.
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Anglican leader to meet pope on November 21: Vatican
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Oct 30, 2:24 pm ETArchbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans, will meet Pope Benedict XVI on November 21, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi confirmed Friday.
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African immigrants and refugees in Europe, Part 2
San Francisco Bay View - Fri Nov 6, 10:50 pm ETThe historic city of Rome is known for breathtaking sights from the Vatican to the Coliseum and beyond. However, there are little known areas not far from the historic routes frequented by tourists, areas where large numbers of refugees from a number of African countries reside in poverty but with dignity.
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Madonna sculpture highlights fundraiser
The Cincinnati Enquirer - Fri Nov 6, 11:46 am ETHospice of the Bluegrass-Northern Kentucky is offering a bronze bust of the Madonna della Pieta from the Vatican Treasury Collection as the signature silent auction item at its annual fundraiser on Nov. 14.
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NY bishop 'nuanced' on visitation of women religious
National Catholic Reporter - Fri Nov 6, 4:12 pm ETBishop William Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., (that's Long Island) is the latest U.S. bishop to make a statement about the Vatican's apostolic visitation of U.S. women religious.
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Catholics angered by S.F. supes win new hearing
San Francisco Chronicle - Fri Nov 6, 3:39 am ETA federal appeals court granted a Catholic advocacy group's request Thursday for a new hearing on whether San Francisco expressed official hostility to religion in 2006 when the Board of Supervisors denounced a Vatican order to Catholic Charities not to place...
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Reconcilable differences: The church reaches out to modern arts
Catholic News Service - Fri Nov 6, 12:25 pm ETVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Once made in heaven, the marriage between art and the church has long been on the skids. "We are a bit like estranged relatives; there has been a divorce," said Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture.
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‘Insult’ to San Franciscans
Metropolitan News-Enterprise - Fri Nov 6, 12:13 pm ET“That the Board of Supervisors urges Cardinal William Levada, in his capacity as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican (formerly known as Holy Office of the Inquisition), to withdraw his discriminatory and defamatory directive that Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco stop placing children in need of adoption with homosexual households.”
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Papacy God's doing
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Wed Nov 4, 12:00 am ETDonald Collins' letter "Anglicans, beware!", which attacks Pope Benedict XVI and the Roman Catholic Church because of the recent outreach to Anglicans dissatisfied with the leadership of their church, never once makes reference to Jesus Christ.
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Terry Mattingly: NY archbishop takes on The Times
Abilene Reporter-News - Thu Nov 5, 9:00 pm ETMaureen Dowd of The New York Times has long enjoyed flaunting her Catholic schoolgirl pedigree like a badge of honor. Still, the Pulitzer Prize winner took her game to another level in a recent column attacking Rome for its investigation of religious orders which shelter sisters who oppose many of the church’s teachings. Wait, is “investigation” the right word? “The Vatican is now conducting ...
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Pope welcomes community-wide Anglican conversion
The Daily Reveille - Wed Nov 4, 12:17 am ETAfter centuries of conflict, some members of the Catholic and Anglican Churches will soon get the change they are seeking. But the change will not come on a local level. Pope Benedict XVI announced last week the Catholic Church is open to groups of Anglic...
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