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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Anglicans: A Hostile Takeover From the Continent?
The Globalist - Thu Nov 5, 2:50 am ETWhen the Vatican recently announced its readiness to offer a new spiritual home to disgruntled practitioners of the Anglican faith, there was initially a stunned silence in England — and then bouts of protest.
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Vatican talks with traditionalists
Opelousas Daily World - Fri Oct 30, 3:42 am ETVATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI's efforts to unify the Catholic Church and reach out to Christian traditionalists took a new step with the start of talks between the Vatican and a group of breakaway Catholics that includes a Holocaust denier.
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Court rules crucifixes in Italy violate freedoms
USA Today - Wed Nov 4, 1:17 am ETThe European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and education freedoms, prompting an angry reaction from the Vatican and government officials.
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Vatican to decide each case of Anglican priests
365 Gay - Mon Nov 2, 9:35 am ETThe Vatican said Saturday that married Anglican priests will be admitted to the Catholic priesthood on a case-by-case basis.
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Crossing the line in holy war
New York Post - Wed Nov 4, 6:51 am ETThe 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 education freedoms. In a decision that could force a review of the use of religious...
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Italy protests ruling against crucifix display
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Wed Nov 4, 7:13 pm ETROME (JTA)—Italian officials and the Vatican protested a human rights court ruling that said the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and educational freedoms.
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Doyle responds to Tomasi
National Catholic Reporter - Wed Nov 4, 2:42 pm ETArcbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations, recently made a defense of the church's handling of the priest sex abuse crisis by citing suspect numbers and by pointing the finger at other denominations, largely on the basis of an article in The Christian Science Monitor.
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Vatican decision received with some applause, some apathy
The Standard-Times - Mon Nov 2, 12:05 am ETAfter a three-year process, the Vatican recently decided to invite the world's 77 million Anglicans into the fold, offering full communion within the Roman Catholic Church while retaining Anglican liturgy and the married priesthood.
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David Gibson: Is Pope Benedict a closet liberal?
The Capital Times - Sat Oct 31, 5:39 am ETWhen Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope in April 2005, all the world rejoiced - or recoiled - with the certain knowledge that the cardinals had settled on the one man who would be more conservative than John Paul II.
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Community marks centennial of reception into Catholic Church
Catholic News Service - Mon Nov 2, 5:40 pm ETGARRISON, N.Y. (CNS) -- One hundred years before Pope Benedict XVI captured headlines by establishing a special structure for Anglicans who want to be in full communion with the Catholic Church, the Franciscan Friars and Sisters of the Atonement became the first religious group to be received into the church in its entirety.
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Nun reprimanded for escorting women to abortion clinic
Chicago Tribune - Tue Nov 3, 4:18 pm ETAs Roman Catholic religious women brace for a Vatican investigation and the abortion battle reaches new heights, an order of nuns based in Wisconsin has reprimanded a Chicago sister for volunteering as an escort at an abortion clinic.
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Vatican to accept married priests on case-by-case basis
USA Today - Sat Oct 31, 12:47 pm ETThe Vatican said Saturday that married Anglican priests will be admitted to the Catholic priesthood on a case-by-case basis as Rome makes it easier for disillusioned conservative Anglicans to convert.
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Pope John Paul II cruises past St. Helena Central
St. Tammany News - Fri Nov 6, 1:36 am ETPope John Paul II’s Tyler Lusignan ran for 185 yards and two touchdowns, while adding another TD on a punt return as the Jaguars downed St. Helena Central 28-6 in PJP’s final regular-season home game Friday.
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Pope John Paul II completes home stand tonight
St. Tammany News - Fri Nov 6, 1:32 am ETPope John Paul II’s Jaguars take on the St. Helena Central Hawks in the final game of a three-game home stand tonight.
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Nun suspends activism for abortion rights after reprimand
Chicago Tribune - Tue Nov 3, 2:39 pm ETFor decades, Sister Donna Quinn has championed the rights of women to use contraception, seek ordination and end unwanted pregnancies. The Dominican nun has picketed for abortion rights in Washington, petitioned the pope for a female archbishop and escorted women into abortion clinics. But as the Vatican turns up scrutiny of the nation's nuns and U.S. Roman Catholic bishops refuse to support ...
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