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Monday July 21, 2008
Catholic Church • Roman Catholic Womenpriests:
The ceremony, like several others that have taken place around the world over the past six years, was denounced by the Roman Catholic Church, and critics said the event was a stunt with no religious significance.The Catholic Church has consistently taught that only men can be ordained as priests, and the Archdiocese of Boston said that the women who participated in yesterday’s ceremony had automatically excommunicated themselves by participating in what it said was an invalid ordination ceremony.
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Wednesday June 11, 2008
Catholic Church • Religious Insanity:
A couple, legally married, is denied a church wedding by a Catholic bishop — who in so doing has added himself to our collection of stories filed under ‘religious insanity.’ » Full Story
Friday May 30, 2008
Catholic Church:
Advocates of women ordination cite the letters of Saint Paul, some of the earliest texts of Christianity, to show that women played important roles in the early church.
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Thursday May 22, 2008
Catholic Church • Exorcism:
Hundreds of Germans, tortured by inner voices, are on the search for priests who can free them from what they believe to be the grip of the Devil, according to an extraordinary radio documentary that has stirred an awkward debate about exorcism in the Catholic Church.
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Friday May 16, 2008
Catholic Church • Mariology:
Twenty years after a woman said the Virgin Mary appeared to her, hundreds still attend Our Lady of the Rock gatherings in the Mojave. Despite disavowal by the church, followers say they draw comfort.
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Catholic Church:
Australia’s bishops have released a public statement suggesting that Bishop Robinson is wrong about the authority of Christ and the authority of the church to “teach the truth”.
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Wednesday May 14, 2008
Catholic Church • Science and Religion:
Just as there are multiple forms of life on earth, so there could exist intelligent beings in outer space created by God. And some aliens could even be free from original sin, the Vatican’s astronomer speculates.
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Friday May 9, 2008
Catholic Church • Mormonism/Mormon Church:
The Roman Catholic Church has recently directed dioceses worldwide not to give parish information to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The move is to prevent LDS Church members from baptizing by proxy Catholic ancestors.
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Monday May 5, 2008
Catholic Church • Mariology:
Officials at Notre-Dame-du-Laus church say that after four months of daily apparitions starting in May 1664, the Virgin Mary asked Rencurel to build a church and a house to receive priests.
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Thursday April 24, 2008
Catholic Church:
Padre Pio’s body is unusually central to the cult that surrounds him, and exceptionally controversial.
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Tuesday April 15, 2008
Catholic Church:
Benedict’s pilgrimage was the first trip by a pontiff to the United States since the sex abuse scandal rocked U.S. dioceses in the early 2000s and triggered lawsuits that have cost the church hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements.
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Monday April 7, 2008
Catholic Church • Exorcism:
The archdiocese doesn’t receive any more than seven or eight calls a year about exorcism. But exorcism has always been part of the Catholic ministry, even if it has fallen by the wayside.
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Catholic Church:
Texcoco Bishop Carlos Aguiar Retes, president of the Mexican Bishops Conference, said drug lords had financed public works in rural areas that are little served by the government and also had built churches.
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Friday March 14, 2008
Catholic Church • Mariology • Superstition:
At least 50 people have lost their sight after staring at the sun hoping to see an image of the Virgin Mary, according to reports.
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Tuesday March 11, 2008
Catholic Church:
The Vatican has put together a list of seven “social” sins that includes excessive wealth, drug abuse, littering, genetic tampering and creating poverty.
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Thursday March 6, 2008
Catholic Church • Islam:
The Muslim delegation also announced several initiatives to strengthen relations between Islam and denominations like Protestants and Orthodox Christians.
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Wednesday March 5, 2008
Catholic Church • Islam:
The group includes representatives of 138 Muslim scholars and intellectuals who wrote to Benedict and other Christian leaders last year urging Christians and Muslims to develop their common ground of belief in one God.
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Monday March 3, 2008
Catholic Church:
The case is that of Dennis Riccitelli, a former Roman Catholic priest charged in 2004 with fraud and stealing thousands of dollars from his Mesa church. Under canon law, a priest has the right to spend his church’s money however he sees fit, his lawyers told the judge. So likely no matter how he used the church’s money, he could not have run afoul of Arizona law.
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Wednesday February 6, 2008
Catholic Church • Religion Trends:
Protestant churches in recent years have increasingly turned to the rite to increase spirituality and devotional preparation for Easter Sunday among their members.
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Catholic Church:
The Vatican on Tuesday issued a new prayer for the Jews to be recited during some services of the old Latin Mass after Jewish groups complained that the existing one was offensive.
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Wednesday January 30, 2008
Catholic Church • Religion Trends:
Nearly one-fifth of all Latinos in America have converted from one religion to another or to secularism. Half of Hispanic evangelicals are converts, with more than 43 percent of them tracing their roots to the Catholic Church.
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Saturday January 19, 2008
Catholic Church • Emmanuel Milingo • Unification Church:
Archbishop Milingo was excommunicated for marrying and for attempting to ordain four married Catholic priests as bishops in the United States.
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Friday January 4, 2008
Catholic Church:
Science is to make way for diplomacy at the Pope’s summer residence, with the dismantling of the astronomical observatory that has been part of Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, for more than 75 years. The Pope needs more room to receive diplomats so the telescopes have to go.
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Catholic Church:
The Vatican has begun drafting a document to elaborate on Pope Benedict XVI’s recent liberalization of the old Latin Mass because some bishops are either ignoring his move or misinterpreting it, officials said.
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Sunday December 30, 2007
Catholic Church • Exorcism:
The Vatican is denying reports it plans to increase the number of exorcists around the world so possessed people can get help quickly.
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