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Jesuit Canon Lawyer Hits Out At Abuse Hysteria
BY SIMON CALDWELL A SENIOR Vatican canon lawyer has defended the rights of priests and bishops caught up in clerical abuse scandals. An article in Civilta Cattolica by Jesuit Fr......
Tired Pope Asks For Prayers As He Travels To Bulgaria
BY LUKE COPPEN POPE JOHN PAUL II asked for prayers for his ailing health during his 82nd birthday celebrations on Sunday. The Pope, who left Rome on Wednesday for a gruelling......
Vatican
End slave trade, Pope urges POPE JOHN PAUL II has called for an end to the traffic in human beings and the sexual exploitation of women and children in developing countries. In......
Africa
Rebels free Congo priests Two JESLTIT missionaries were released last week, after they were arrested while aiding the wounded involved in a violent encounter in Kisangani, a......
Asia
Delegates visit North Korea A VATICAN Delegation has returned from North Korea where it sought to demonstrate "the Holy Father's constant solidarity with the North Korean......
Church Defends Juan Diego
MEXICO'S Church historians are preparing to defend Juan Diego, the visionary of Guadalupe following the publication of a book by a dissident priest. The priest, Manuel Ohm&......
The Latin Patriarch Of Jerusalem Called On Israelis And...
Patriarch Michel Sabbah, a Palestinian native, said during Sunday's solemn Mass: "Let us purify ourselves and place ourselves on the side of the human person and the mystery of......